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Robocopy is still the fastest way to copy thousands of files on Windows, and I wasted years not using it

Windows is a bundle of both CLI and GUI tools. We use the GUI ones more because they serve a broader use case and are convenient to use. For file copying and moving, I hadn't ventured much outside the ...
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Copying over 5 millions files and 2 million folders... Alternative to robocopy?

Title says it all. I'm regularly copying about 500GB of tiny files in lots of nested sub-folders from a server in one site to another. Robocopy gets the job done, but even after tweaking the flags, it ...