The fastest mass copy and sync, backup tool for Windows, Mac and Linux/Unix
Requires java JDK. If not already availabe on your system, download and install the JDK 1.8+ from Oracle. https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/overview/index.html
Windows: Exploded the downloaded zip into a c:\bin\fastcopy and add the directory to the system path. Run the fc.bat, fc.exe or fastcopy-console.exe for the UI version. Also see below on how to integrate with the windows explorer.
Mac OS:
Exploded the downloaded zip to ~/bin/fastcopy
The "Fastcopy(1.2).app" is the MacOS app, copy it to the ~/Applications and run.
For the first time, it might alert saying the app can't be opened because it is from a untrusted source. Go to the Finder, right click to bring up the context menu and click "Open" from there. You will have the option to open it there after.
Also see below on how to add as service to the context menu in the Finder.
Unix/linux, Mac command line : run the ./fc.sh
ex:
$ ./fc.sh -help
MHISoft FastCopy (v1.3, build Dec 2018)
(https://github.com/mhisoft/fastcopy)
Usages:
fc [option] -from source_dir -to target_dir
source-dir: The source files and directories delimited with semicolon.
target-dir: The target directory.
Options:
-v verbose mode.
-verify verify each file copy by comparing the file content hash.
-m use multiple threads, best for copying across the SSD drives.
-w number of worker threads in the multi threads mode, default:2.
-o always override.
-n override only when the source file newer or different in size.
-f flat copy, copy everything to the same target directory.
-pack Package the small files first to speed up the copy, requires write access on the source folder or drive.
-k Keep the original file timestamp.
-sf Create the same source folder under the target and copies to it.
Examples:
copy from current dir to the backup directory: fastcopy t:\backup
fastcopy -from s:\projects\dir1;s:\projects\dir2 -to t:\backup
The author is not responsible for any loss of files or damage incurred by running this utility.
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