simultaneous Copy/move files to multiple folders (not queue)

[kork]

Hi,

first of all: Total Commander is a great tool!!

Suggestion for a new feature: Copy/move file(s) to multiple folders simultaneously.

I know that there is a similar function already available with marking two folders/(soft/hard)links as target, but if i have to copy each time to different folders, this is not really handy. Also it is not copied simultaneously (which can lead to a major performance boost, if the targets are different hard- or network drives). How about a function like copy move to selected tabs?

Regards, Kork

[umbra]

Hi, kork. I'm not sure, what functionality you are missing.
Currently for queued operations you can use the trick you mentioned in your post or the Background Transfer Manager. For non-queued operations there is a standard copy or a background copy. Plus you can mix them as you want.
Can you provide a scenario that can't be done with current options?

[solid]

2kork
TC doesn't support this. Some times ago i needed it and found this small util n2ncopy. It is exactly what you need, but I'm not sure that it can integrate well with TC.

2umbra Scenario would be: Copy some big files from network, to local computer and to usb drive (or perhaps several usb drives). With queue it will copy them twice i.e. the second copy will start when first finishes.
With copy to background and invoking parallel copy to other destination, can make things even worse, especially on busy network, because source is read twice or more.
With multiple copy, it will read the source once, and copy to several location simultaneously.