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PS. I don't know where my original post went, things like that happen when I'm on my tablet...
But my new computer has only 16 Gigabytes of high speed ram, I thought I could save a few bucks and I'm regretting it.
While 16 is fine for gaming I can feel the difference when working with my 3D animation projects.
So I did what I suggested myself and increased my virtual memory to 32,000 Megabytes.
I'm happy to report that I did see a noticable improvement in performance in memory intensive tasks at 4k resolutions.
I still may add another 16 Gigs of ram but this did help.
Mike
If you are uncomfortable using drag and drop, try using the DOS copy command. For example, if you want to copy all the files from e:\myfolder to an existing c:\backup folder, open a DOS prompt and type "copy e:\myfolder\*.* c:\backup" and press Enter..
Ben
If you use a right-click, you should have the option to move, copy or cancel.
Ben
Last edited by Ben Myers; 02 Feb 2019 at 23:05.
Whatever the error message may say, it seems unlikely that lack of memory is at the root of your problems.
As a test I've just turned OFF virtual memory on a machine with just 4GB RAM. Then I successfully used File Explorer to copy and paste a 72GB file from one external usb HDD to another. Task Manager showed that throughout the copying no more than 45% of memory was in use, and Explorer itself was only using 65MB.
That message seems to be misreporting the actual error, something else must be stopping you copying.