Throttling Windows

September 2, 2005 5:24 PM

I used to have this great Windows freeware that allowed you to pause and throttle copying and moving commands, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was called. Any ideas?

Uh, that's pretty much it!

posted by hoborg to computers & internet (7 comments total)

I would love something like this for OS X, which I assume would be easier given the unix foundation and the concept of renice-ing a running program. Copying from a CF-Card plugged into a PCMCIA adapter brings my system to a crawl.
posted by odinsdream at 5:35 PM on September 2, 2005

we apparently have too much free time to spend copying files ;)
posted by hoborg at 5:58 PM on September 2, 2005

Is there any reason that ProcessTamer wouldn't work for this purpose. I use it on XP to control java and Microsoft Office.
posted by clearlynuts at 8:17 PM on September 2, 2005

Maybe it was Total Copy. We use it at work.
posted by iconomy at 8:23 PM on September 2, 2005

Some of the guys that worked on Winamp wrote such a tool and open sourced it, it's called NSCopy.

It will let you throttle copies, not moves, but it works and it's free. You can also define sets of files to move, but I've never used that functionality.
posted by rordog at 9:12 PM on September 2, 2005

if(iconomy == female) { kiss();}

else { handshake();}
posted by hoborg at 9:57 AM on September 3, 2005

Whoo hoo! I kiss you!
posted by iconomy at 10:00 AM on September 3, 2005