[pchelpers] Re: transfering data

Billyus Eximius wrote:
> Can anyone tell me why sometimes when you transfer data from one drive or 
> partition to another, does it sometimes not get there?
> I find that instead of transferring "en mass", one folder at a time seems to 
> be the best way.
> 
> Any ideas why this happens? and is there any remedy
> 
> Billy
I could speculate that drag and drop, like cut and paste has physical 
limits.
One would be the amount of space or memory windows allocates to such a 
transfer. If it is less than the  size of the data, you might not get it 
all in one shot. That is why several smaller attempts can be a better idea.

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