Ultracopier is an open-source, tiny tool for copying, pasting, and moving files and directories in one single operation. Besides, this one-task application includes some useful copy management options to control performance and to avoid possible errors and collisions.
I must admit that I had my doubts about the need of having a specific tool just for copying and moving files around your system. Was it really necessary to develop a tool that would have cost more than 360,000 US dollars to build – had it not been open source, and, according to its developers, – just to copy/move a bunch of files from one place to another? If you only need to move a few files or a full directory from A to B, any copy/paste tool in your operating system can easily do it. But what if you wish to move or back up a large number of files and folders, all in different places and drives, and all of them at the same time? Usually, this will take you a while, as you will need to copy or move every set of files one at a time, unless you want to make your system freeze while trying to manage multiple copy/paste/move operations.
Ultracopier is capable of copying or moving any number of files and folders, from any number of drives and partitions to the location of your choice. It will not only manage to do all this in an efficient way, but it will also make sure that it does not interrupt or clog your system’s performance, and will give you full control over it. You can decide the priority you want to assign to this task, the size of the blocks to be copied or moved, what to do if anything goes wrong, how to manage copy errors and file collisions, etc. All your operating system’s copy and paste tool will usually do when it comes across some file collision is to let you know that the operation needs to be aborted. Ultracopier can skip, overwrite, or rename any file when this happens, and seamlessly go on with its task. I believe that this feature alone is worth having this free tool installed on your computer.
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