George, if SyncToy could "erase empty folders" it would be a winner. Im
finding it very usefull though, its a great toy!
arby
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"George Goley - Microsoft" wrote:

> Thanks for the thoughts folks,
>
> We don't see a big win when we spin up multiple copy threads, though the
> analysis already benefits from multi-threading.
>
> We'll keep the "erase empty folders" idea in mind.
>
> Thanks,
> george
>
> "ben" wrote:
>
> > You are right, copying multiple files to/from the same physsical HD
> > would create more overhead, the total operation would be slower, not faster.
> >
> > on 20-09-05 15:31 Homer J. Simpson wrote:
> > >> 1. SyncToy should be able to process several files at the same time, e.g.
> > >> copy files onto the right folder concurrently
> > >
> > > Can I ask why? Although the OS may be multitasking, hard drives, by their
> > > mechanical nature, aren't. The concurrent read/write threads would spend
> > > most of their time waiting for the hard drive to keep up, unless you're
> > > reading sets of files from different drives (NOT different partitions off
> > > the same drive) and also writing to different drives. Then there's also
> > > copying across a LAN...a single hard drive read operation can provide data a
> > > lot faster than your average network connection can handle. If you have
> > > multiple threads each sending its own data set across the wire, again you'll
> > > just overload everything and spend more time waiting for the concurrent
> > > operations to complete...
> > >
> > >
> >