Moving TRS19 Data

[boleyd]

Replaced 120gb SDD with a 500GB ssd. Moved data from 120gb SDD to a hard drive in preparation. Copy Pasts of the folder was used and no issues. When the 150gb SSD arrived I copied the folder from the hard drive to the the new 550gb SSD. Somethings did not get copied. Tried a few more times and rechecked the hard disk, Trainz said it was ok. Now what do I do?

Well I tried copying the individual files to the 150gb SSD and that worked. So just a hint if you find you copy does not always work.

 

[pware]

I have had a similar experience when moving a large quantity of data from one device (a HDD), to a second device (a portable SSD) for transport and then onto a third device (a HDD) on a computer at another location. It took a second attempt the next day (due to the traveling required between the locations) before it was successful. It was not a Trainz problem but I strongly suspect a Windows problem, or an antivirus problem.

 

[JCitron]

It's probably the antivirus stuffing things up. They like to do that when copying files if you haven't noticed. More recently when manually copying files to a new drive, I will exclude the destination drive and any folder on that new drive from scanning. This prevents the A/V from stomping on those files and causing problems.

If I need to copy huge amounts of content, I will use Fast Copy.

https://fastcopy.jp/en/

You can allocate a large buffer of RAM to hold data to speed up the copying process. It also has other features too such as diff-copying, moving, and even deleting. I use the program from my Trainz data backups.

 

[pware]

On your advice I downloaded and tried FastCopy on moving a smaller set of data (1,200 files, 52MB) from a HDD to an external SDD and it worked very well. I will use it for Trainz DB and install file backups.

 

[JCitron]

On your advice I downloaded and tried FastCopy on moving a smaller set of data (1,200 files, 52MB) from HDD to and external SDD and it worked very well. I will use it for Trainz DB and install file backups.

I'm glad it worked for you. The other thing I forgot to mention is that it doesn't calculate first before copying. It just does it making the process faster.