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Vista Runs Out of Memory While Copying Files
ta bu shi da yu writes "It appears that, incredibly, Vista can run out of memory while copying files. ZDNet is reporting that not only does it run out of memory after copying 16,400+ files, but that 'often there is little indication that file copy operations haven't completed correctly.' Apparently a fix was scheduled for SP1 but didn't make it; there is a hotfix that you must request."
the box I "make use of" has just 15,000 mp3s...
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16k files should be enough for everybody.
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Isn't it a little odd that if you strip off the first and last digits of the number "16,400", it's 640, as in 'no one needs more than 640k"?
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M$ is scared that people will try to copy their documents to another computer before reverting back to XP. Smart, very smart Micro$oft! On a tech note, what kind of number is 14,600? I would have thought 16,384 would be better.
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I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Vista fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Vista PC (an Intel Core 2 Duo w/4 gigs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my ancient Mac running OS 9, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Vista PC, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Firefox will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Notepad is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Vista PCs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Vista PC that has run faster than its Mac OSX counterpart, despite the Vista PC's same chip architecture. My 286/12 with 2 megs of ram runs faster than this 2.4ghz mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Vista is a superior operating system.
Vista lovers, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use Vista over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
they can only send 16,000 files to the RIAA and MPAA to check, at once.
... the exact number is 16384 ?
Oh, the fools! If only they'd built it to let you copy 16,401 files!
I want an OS that lets me re-organize my pr0n anytime I want. I *need* to be able to select 50K-100K files at a time and move them from place to place without slowdowns. Ever try, in Windows, to search your network for all the *.jpg files, select a few hundred thousand of them in the search window, and drag them to the new firewire disk you just plugged in? It's painful, lemme tell ya.
Anybody want to suggest an OS that would work for me? I'm serious.
and then you take the 640, divide by 2, get 320, remove the last 0, and get 32, the reverse of 23.
Then you multiply 23 by 30, get 690, take 42, reverse it to 24 and subtruct this from 690. You get 666.
What does that tell you? Ha? Ha?
You can't handle the truth.
What does that tell you? Ha? Ha?
You've got too much time on your hands?
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only files with altnerate data streams trigger the leak
Well that's what you get for crossing the streams. Egon warned us. Kaspersky's risking total protonic reversal. I guess they were fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing.
Developers: We can use your help.
This is a minor problem, absolutely rare event, occurs with next to no regu...
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There is a similar bug in all unix, probably linux too. :)
If there are 16k files in a simple directory, type rm *.
If it works, try the same with 32k files.
Then 64k files. Eventually it will fail
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Actually, it's more like 90 / 90000, but you're only a few orders of magnitude off.
Not necessarily his fault, maybe he used Excel to calculate it...
It's not a simple operation. Think about how a file copy works within Vista:
1. The file is opened.
2. The file is scanned for viruses.
3. The file is scanned for adware.
4. The file is scanned for DRM violations.
5. The user is asked if they're really sure they want to copy the file.
6. The user is asked again if they're sure they want to copy it.
7. The OS makes a judgement on how long it will take to copy so it can update the pretty stats in the gui.
8. Lots of flashy graphics and widgets are loaded to show you a pretty animation while you wait.
9. The file is copied.
10. The destination file is verified that it is intact.
11. The destination file is scanned for viruses.
12. The destination file is scanned for adware.
13. The destination file is scanned for DRM violations.
14. The file is successfully copied.
Hell - I'm surprised their OS can even handle copying 1,600 files, let alone 16,000.
Just disrupt the deflector shield with a tachyon burst.
"Vista is now forced down my throat"
I got news for you, that is Vista, but it isn't your throat it being forced into.
There are no loopholes. It's either legal or it's not.
you just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
Microsoft employees buy another copy of their 13K+ music collections if they want another copy.
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Shouldn't this be "divide by 8.3" in the true DOS spirit of things? ;-)
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I expected this very problem to happen and have taken corrective measures. Simply, I use one large file for everything.
Think about the innovation that is being created here. I can access all the spreadsheets I have ever created whilst updating my current webpage project, search for an e-mail archive and read the latest TPS Report Coversheet without changing files. It means I don't have to partition my hard drive. And I only have *one* file ever to backup.
This has simplified my daily work to the point I fired all my IT staff. Thanks Microsoft!
Yes, but everyone knows one-in-a-million chances come up nine-times out of ten.
Not a sentence!
find -name "*base*" -exec chown us {} \; ; ln -s
Well there is a old legend that if you copy more than 666 files on WindowsME and open a linux related site at once Steve Balmer will apear from the monitor, throw a chair at you and you will be desintegrated
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Honestly, how can [Cancel or Allow] anyone co[Cancel or Allow]py that m[Cancel or Allow]any files anyway?
No. When removing a file, Windows will always tell you beforehand if you lack disk space for the operation. It is a feature, stop complaining.
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