angrynorth

I have used Aladdin Stuffit to compress 17,000 files down to 1.14 gig and I am trying to copy the resulting stuffit file across our network.

It keeps stopping at about halfway through, is the file to large? Is there a better way of moving this file?

Anybody any ideas?

angrynorth

anybody got an suggestions at all?

DJ Dunk

iTrader: (5)

Can you not go a more direct route ? Like use a crossover cable ?

angrynorth

Cant I'm afraid the target computers nearly 30metres away on a different floor.

DJ Dunk

iTrader: (5)

Split the file and put into onto CD-R's then rejoin at the other end ?

This should do it Should be able to squeeze it onto 2 CD-R's quite easily.

[Edited by DJ Dunk - 12/20/2002 2:57:47 PM]

DJ Dunk

iTrader: (5)

Either that or split the file and send it as 2 or 3 parts, then rejoin at the other end

dsmith

What are you using to copy ?

I have seen cases where simply using a windows copy (drag and drop the file etc) between shared drives can fail for very large files.

If you can ftp them its likely to be considerably more reliable...

Deano

father_jack

Robocopy (from the resource kit) will retry a million times by default until it has succeeded.
If you copy it uncompressed it will hammer the network less though. i.e. lots of little files rather than one huge ******.
So I'd robocopy it uncompressed and go to the pub.

angrynorth

Thanks for all the replies, whilst scoobynet was down I split the file into 3 and managed to get it across that way.

That Robocopy thing sounds good though. Wish I'd have known about that this morning.

Cheers