Help with NAS / Network Drives

[anthonyjclarke]

Hi, wondering if you can assist here.... trying to copy between two NAS drives on my Mac

Cant seem to get the connections to work

Do you have any samples / advice here?

[mhisoft]

oh I have not used/tested the connections functionality from the file chooser. the file browser component is an open source I found on the github.

Alternatively, I'd suggest you mount the two drives in the Finder first. Go to the Finders on Mac-> Go menu --> "Connect to server", make the two SMB connections for source and target.
ex: smb://mac-win8
The mounted volumes are listed under "Locations" on the left of the Finder.

command line mount works too. google "mount a smb drive on mac".

Then go to the Fast Copy App, browse and select the source and target under /Volumes. Go to the very top root / and the mounted NAS drives are under "Volumes".

cheers

Tony

[anthonyjclarke]

Thanks, will give this a go....

[anthonyjclarke]

Worked, thanks... was expecting it to be faster than www.goodsync.com but seems to be a bit slower and also very slow on small files.... appreciate your help anyway

[mhisoft]

thanks for the feedback. I made an improvement of speeding up copying the small size files in v1.2.5.

[anthonyjclarke]

Is 1.2.5 available to test?

[mhisoft]

the jar is available at https://github.com/mhisoft/FastCopy/tree/master/dist.
if you use mac, you need to integrate with the Finder and invoke the jar from the Finder context menu. I have not built the 1.2.5 Mac App yet.

Do some test and give me feedbacks. if you use two NAS drive, better turn off the muti worker because it bottlenecks on the network and harddrive.

I am also working on ideas how to improves the mass small files transfers, such as compress and package them first. stay tuned.