Warning for TeraCopy users -files can be deleted while copying

[tankman1989]

I just found out the hard way that when TeraCopy is being used to copy or move files it is possible to select the files and drag to the location to initialize the transfer. While transferring it is possible to delete the files that are being copied. They are not locked by the program which I don't think is an issue with Windows as they are locked while copying/moving.

 

[seedubya]

Thanks for this - I sure didn't know.

 

[tankman1989]

Thanks for this - I sure didn't know.

Yeah, it caused a major problem for me so I thought I would bring it to the attention of the forum.

 

[mason]

It's happened to me before a few weeks ago ended up lossing loads of a. Clients pc as well

I never use it any more

 

[tankman1989]

It's happened to me before a few weeks ago ended up lossing loads of a. Clients pc as well

I never use it any more

Well why didn't you tell us!!! We should call it TerrorCopy instead!

 

[Scales]

Why would you delete files your copying? How can you blame the software? Sounds like user error to me. Unless I am misunderstanding the post.

 

[tankman1989]

Why would you delete files your copying? How can you blame the software? Sounds like user error to me. Unless I am misunderstanding the post.

Ok, here's the scenario. Select files to move, in my case it was about 100 350mb files, drag them to the other drive which is the destination. When the copy starts you then have full control of the explorer window as the process is passed off to teracopy. I was copying the files to the other drive because I didn't want them on the source drive anymore. The 35GB takes a while to copy so in that time I thought it was done copying and deleted the files because there wasn't a Windows copying process screen locking the files. I just started using teracopy so I wasn't ready for the files not to be locked.

 

[Xander]

Even Windows would let you delete files in that manner. Unless you're trying to delete the file that is actively in mid-copy, it's still deletable. Only the file being copied is locked at any given time; just because it's "on the list" doesn't lock it.

 

[Cambridge PC Support]

I'm not sure of any copy/move utility that'll lock every single file until it's done with it's job. Not that I've really looked for one, I'm usually careful with that kinda thing.

When you're copying/moving a load of files, you shouldn't really be fiddling about with the source until it's completed.


btw welcome to the boards Xander, didn't spot your post in Intros, but you do seem kinda familiar