Comments on: Throttling Windows

Question: Throttling Windows

hoborg — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 17:24:09 -0800

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!

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 17:35:15 -0800

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.

By: hoborg

hoborg — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 17:58:28 -0800

we apparently have too much free time to spend copying files ;)

By: clearlynuts

clearlynuts — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 20:17:00 -0800

Is there any reason that ProcessTamer wouldn't work for this purpose. I use it on XP to control java and Microsoft Office.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 20:23:57 -0800

Maybe it was Total Copy. We use it at work.

By: rordog

rordog — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 21:12:59 -0800

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.

By: hoborg

hoborg — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 09:57:37 -0800

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By: iconomy

iconomy — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 10:00:42 -0800

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