TeraCopy V2.12    Suggested by AntBond - Updated by Checker on 25 Mar 2010 936KB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (2915) Website - Screenshot - Download - Comments (15) - Post comment - Permalink

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 Portable Paul: This is one of the few programs I keep on my flash drive in my _sys_exts folder. I install this on almost every computer i touch. I'm almost 100% portable with this as one of the VERY few exceptions. It's invaluable for moving large groups of files and the shell context menu integration is a must.

I've not toyed with portable shell integration. i use cafe to do all my file launching. Any suggestions on how to get the context function portable would be appreciated. [2009-09-11 07:00]

 a: I wasn't sure which one to download so I picked the "portable" version. AVG has warned me that teracopy is infected. Surely a false positive, but I seldom have this happen. There's the off chance that the file has actually been infected, but I doubt it. I'm updating as of now to see if this remedies the situation. [2009-09-11 14:15]

 a: No sir. Still says its infected. A little vague. Does "SHDOCVW" or "Win32/Heur" ring a bell to anyone? AVG knowledge base gives no information. [2009-09-11 14:20]

 Webfork: Lifehacker LOVES this program and I can see why.

"Heur" means a "heuristic" virus detection, or a possible detection, not something based on a documented virus. If you Google it, you'll see that it probably has something to do with the SHDOCVW.DLL call.

Anyway the program comes up clean on both ClamWin and Comodo AV, which are usually much more paranoid than AVG (see MailPV and Produkey). [2009-09-11 15:34]

 Queue: Personally, I've found AVG to be one of the most paranoid and false-positive-heavy AV scanners in existence.

FastCopy is a smaller alternative to TeraCopy.

TeraCopy's basically the gold standard in this category however. [2009-09-11 16:56]

 Jerry Chrane: Weighing in on the AVG detection of a virus in the portable version, AVG did report an infection as well as Drive Sentry reporting suspicious activity and virus behavior. I'd have to recommend that this product not be downloaded or installed. [2009-09-13 07:56]

 Queue: Out of 41 virus scanners, 6 came up with heuristically detected positives (oddly, AVG WASN'T on the list when I checked). This is a little higher than normal for false positive detections, but still very indicative of a false positive. However, this isn't that odd for a program like this: it bypasses standard system file copy routines and uses other various tricks to achieve as good of file copying speed as possible.

Ignoring that intelligent malware doesn't use tricks like this because it will get them caught, I can't stress enough that knowing how to evaluate anti-virus detections is more important than actually using an anti-virus/malware scanner.

This program isn't malicious and it isn't ''infected'' with anything. [2009-09-14 20:06]

 p3ngwin: i too would love to know if it's possible to install onto USB drive and have the context menu options. [2009-09-26 09:16]

 AntBond: I always use ESET because it has less false positives and detect almost every virus or trojan. [2009-10-30 12:07]

 BGM: It might be possible to add portable context menus with PowerPro portable. It has the ability to add things to the windows explorer menu. Another alternative might be to temporarily add a registy entry to the * for all files, and then delete the key on removal of the drive. You can do this with PowerPro. I use Powerpro to add a reg key to open all files with Notepad2, and then when I close my powerpro, the reg key is deleted. [2009-12-06 20:40]

 Mike S. G.: I'm not sure if the info posted on TeraCopy (How To Extract) is dated but the latest version 2.12 is an Inno setup and not a self extracting exe. The last version stated as portable is 2.05 which I can't even find the download link, I just downloaded it a month ago but it looks to have been taken down.

Regardless, TeraCopy is an excellent app for anyone who moves files on a regular basis, and wants the added benefit of speed and verification of a successful move (or copy). [2010-01-19 12:53]

 Mike S. G.: Follow up:

Thanks for updating the information.

BTW, I must be blind as a bat, the link to the portable is right there on their site (still 2.05 / but there). :) [2010-01-19 15:46]

 bassiliin: File named "Portable" (without extension) in app's folder keeps settings in app folder [2010-01-19 17:43]

 Portable Paul: i love the context menu option of this program, the only way to get it integrated into the shell is to use one of the portable explorer replacements. i'm sorry i can't remember which one but it's one that's on portableapps.com [2010-01-22 07:36]

 donald: Please note there is a portable download from the application homepage.
The download is in a .paf extension installer and may not extract directly to a hard-drive. [2010-06-15 18:51]

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