This shows you the choices TeraCopy offers in its Preferences window. Then I’ll see the TeraCopy options in the Context Menu. I use a third-party file manager called Explorer++ and the only way I can use this feature is if I Right-Click/Drag. It will automatically take over any drag-and-drop or copy/move functions you choose. If you use File Manager, bundled with Windows, TeraCopy can be used as the default copy/move mechanism (optional). If you check out the above Wikipedia article, you will see there are limitations. It can still be used as a checksum to verify data integrity, but only against unintentional corruption. Although MD5 was initially designed to be used as a cryptographic hash function, it has been found to suffer from extensive vulnerabilities. The MD5 algorithm is a widely used hash function producing a 128-bit hash value. This is one of TeraCopy’s Options as it does add a lot of time to the transfer– probably about double. After all, the copies are worthless if they aren’t actually copies, aren’t they. TeraCopy will check all the files by doing a comparison of the originals with the copies. After spending seemingly copious amounts of time copying/moving files, it would be nice to know that the operation succeeded. Obviously, this is of great benefit and can save you tons of time and freaking frustration.

In other words, a single bad file won’t mash up the other transfers. TeraCopy will mark the offending file and notify you which one failed at the end of the operation. With TeraCopy, that will not be the case.

It may or may not complete those thousands of files and you won’t know which ones were successfully copied. You could have copied 29,999 files out of 30,000 and it will stop. If you are copying/moving a huge number of files using Windows, and one of those files is corrupted, the operation will stop. TeraCopy, and I presume other dedicated File Copiers, offer a distinct advantage over the Windows native file transfer applet.

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