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Hi Alfred/Anyone,

I'm running a NAS drive which stores all downloads in my fetch folder, and all my tv episodes in a different volume (same NAS). When moving files normally using windows explorer, it takes almost no time at all, as the NAS drive is simply re-allocating it on the raid disks.

I've noticed however when I use renamer from my pc, it takes a long time to auto-move the files after renaming. This is because I think what it is doing is copying the file to the archive folder first, then deleting from the fetch. I understand this may be for safety reason, but is there a way to actually use the move command?

Obviously when trying to copy from one volume on my nas to another using a computer, it takes forever as it must go NAS 2 Computer 2 NAS!!

Cheers for all the excellent work.

TC

Yes, I'm doing to 'fake' move for now.
There's some issues yet to resolve, but I'll improve it.

-alf

Hi theCheek,
Was just looking at my move code, looks like I'm really doing a move, not a copying file.

Can you test using DOS command?
move "c:\oldmovie.avi" "d:\newmovie.avi" for example.

http://www.computerhope.com/movehlp.htm

Test moving a giant file between different HDD drives.

I did use a fake copying, but forgot I've already changed it to a real move function.
On my normal HDD, moving is as fast as using windows explorer.

-alf

Awesome. You are absolutely correct. Turns out Windows can't handle different NAS volumes very well. As my "downloads" directory was on a seperate volume from my TV archive, it was windows doing the fake move, not renamer. I have now moved the downloads folder to the same as my archive, and bam, instant move and renaming!

Thanks alot for the heads up