I'm cleaning up old computer files, and I've been moving
non-photo and non-video stuff into a miscellaneous folder on a USB backup
drive. Eventually that drive got full, so I decided to move everything to my
studio external hard drive, which still had space.
A few nights ago, I plugged in the USB drive and started
copying a large directory with multiple subdirectories over to the external
drive. I didn't use TeraCopy (hadn't installed it yet) and just did a standard
cut and paste operation. I didn't really check how long it would take, but
based on the speed, I figured it would run for hours.
I’ve got an eye infection that needs my attention, so I left
the copy process for a couple of days. When I finally checked back on it,
something had clearly gone wrong. There was a fresh login screen The computer
had obviously rebooted. Only a handful of files had actually made it to the
external drive, nothing like the multitudes I was expecting.
What happened? My computer had upgraded itself without my
permission. I'd specifically asked to delay updates for five weeks, but Windows
did it anyway and apparently killed the entire copy operation without giving me
any error messages or warnings that something went wrong.
This is exactly the kind of frustration that's been building
with Windows 11 over the past six months. Yes, I could have done better by
installing TeraCopy first and actually monitoring the process. But the real
issue is that Microsoft's system silently failed without telling me anything
was wrong.
I've totally lost faith, I cannot honestly rely on Microsoft
anymore.
Teracopy is available on the Microsoft Store, but to find it
you must spell it exactly without the double r and it should be the first item
on the list and have an page that looks like the one on the righr. It is free.
It’s simple to use and works fine
