Can someone explain to me why copying some files (10 to 20 folders with average 6 files of 5MB) takes so long – about an hour.
I'm downloading some free music from www.jamendo.com. These are zip-files and so I open two explorers, one with the folder containing the zip-files, the other with my 2GB SD-Memory card where I create a folder with the bandname and a subfolder to store the mp3's. Then I unzip the files with the first explorer an drag them to the target folder in the second explorer.
I'm working through all the zip-files each after the other and after the third folder Vista is creeping, showing me some horrible estimating times for copying… I'm going on with my tasks and Vista freezes the mouse pointer from time to time. I arrange the file copy windows so that a can see the progressbar of all the copy-processes and I'm wondering whats going on.
Any suggestions?
Best Answer
This sounds like you were copying several folders at the same time which is not good especially for slow devices like SD cards. You should copy one folder after the other.