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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

i too would love to know if it's possible to install onto USB drive and have the context menu options.

I always use ESET because it has less false positives and detect almost every virus or trojan.

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.

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).

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). :)

File named "Portable" (without extension) in app's folder keeps settings in app folder

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

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.

Doesn't allow you to queue copy to several different destinations.

And it doesn't even work very well. I set it to move a lot of files from A to B and when it said it was "finished" most of the files were still left on A so I had to return to using damn Explorer - tsk tsk.

Please take a look at this thread http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8168&p=31997 (#p31997) and if you have any idea let me know.

Thanks

Version 2.2 is out using the direct like below.
http://www.codesector.com/files/teracopy22.exe

A new installer for v2.7 has been released.
http://blog.codesector.com/2011/11/24/teracopy-portable/

the installer will give you the option to install as "Portable".
* drag & drop feature will not be available

CRC-32: 303ff877

I've was able to copy about 10 GB of files from an aging and extremely noisy and slow hard drive via a USB adapter -- Would have gotten a head ache had I copied from windows explorer, or tried to. PS. 0/42 flagged by virus total, it's clean. PSS. Development seems to have slowed down but there's a beta floating that adds some features / fixes some issues.

As of v2.3 (despite I use it in the portable mode) TeraCopy stores its license in the user's appdata folder... Can anybody suggest a way to force TeraCopy to store its license in the same directory where TeraCopy.exe is run from (just as it was in previous versions)?

Despite it is a beta I have been using v2.3 (now at beta 2) for a while and I found it to be very stable and reliable.

Over a year ago I have requested the developer to introduce a specific feature and since it has been (finally) implemented in v2.3 I prefer to avoid previous versions... I just do not understand why they changed the location where the license is stored from the application folder to the AppData folder!

Actually I just realized that I requested that feature almost 2 years ago... Time flies, fellas ;)

@spicydog
The following should work (got info from http://en.kioskea.net/faq/9814-portable-minecraft-minecraft-on-your-usb-key you can look at it if you need clarification of following instructions):
---- create a folder in the same folder as the exe named "data"
---- open Notepad and type:
set APPDATA=%CD%\data
TeraCopy.exe
---- save as portable_TeraCopy.bat (or whatever you want to call it. just make sure it still has a .bat extension)
---- make sure Notepad did NOT save it as portable_TeraCopy.bat.txt
---- optionally use Bat to Exe Converter (http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=1660) to make it an executable
---- run the bat (or created exe) to run TeraCopy and it should save anything it would save in the user's AppData in the data folder you created instead

PS: I haven't tested the above to ensure it works, but it should work in theory.

@spicydog: what license file?

@ kac0802: I wish it would have worked, but thanks anyway for your suggestion.

Also please consider that I mostly (as in 99.9% of the times) control TeraCopy via ctrl+C and ctrl+V so even if the batch trick would have worked, to implement a suitable workaround it would be quite complex.

@ joby_toss: The license file to use TeraCopy as Pro rather than free... Since the introduction of this new version I have been using TeraCopy without the license so it runs as freeware.

If anybody finds out a working solution, please PM me :)

Thanks

As a fellow Teracopy user, my guess is that you'll have to portabilize the install version with a launcher...

@spicydog: Oh, I only use the free version (like the majority of TPFC users), so I think only Code Sector can address your issue.

@ Midas: I still hope that in a never version TC will return to the previous default behavior, if not I will just continue using it as freeware

@ joby_toss: You are probably right mate but they are so bloody unresponsive

The instructions are very poor!

First: in extracted files there is no TeraCopy.exe file.
Second: This new folder where should be created and how to name it?

Please, clarify!

@Peter202: if you use Universal Extractor (RTFM, please), TeraCopy.exe is located inside the {app} folder in extracted path; you can create the new folder wherever you prefer, and give it whichever name you like, as long as you remember those and it works -- that's the beauty of portable.

When i try to extract the files with Universal Extractor it gives error:

Signature detected: Inno Setup Setup Data (5.4.2)
This is not directly supported, but i'll try to unpack it as version 5309
; Version detected: 5402
Critical error: The setup files are corrupted. Please obtain a new copy of the program.
Unpacking failed. This version is not supported.


With 7zip i can extract the files, but there is no app folder. These are all extracted files:

http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/7040/awu.gif

TerraCopy can only be opened with one of the unofficially updated Universal Extractors. Either the one Lupo did or the illegally updated one that didn't release the source code will work as they include the updated InnoUnp.exe. It won't work with Universal Extractor 1.6.1 base version or 7-Zip.

You can also just run Inno Unpacker on it directly. Grab it here: http://innounp.sourceforge.net/ And just place innounp.exe and terracopy.exe in the same directory and run innounp.exe -x terracopy.exe from the command line. That's all Universal Extractor is doing under the hood after it figures out what kind of installer it is.

How can i set TeraCopy is default copy program instead of windows explorer? In application folder there is one reg file DefaultHandler.reg but if i open the file and add the registry value to the registry it still doesn't change to default copy program.

@JohnTHaller

Great help, thank you. Just one thing, its teracopy, not terracopy. Hence the command line example was slightly wrong.

@Peter202: you need to adjust the paths inside that .reg file accordingly.

Hello,

I can't find Teracopy Portable.
When I run the downloadable executable it runs an installer which ask for Program Files (which means, not portable).
Thank you for you help

a+,=)
-=Finiderire=-

Configuration :
Teracopy Portable Version 2.0 beta 3
Windows 8.1 Pro x64

Hi again,

Read this :
" Download the installer and extract.
The application files are in the {app} folder.
Rename Portable.txt file to 'Portable' (remove .txt)."

SO let's change my question : why not providing the program as a Zip file already "prepared" ?

a+,=)
-=Finiderire=-
Launch TeraCopy.exe.

Hi again,

This did not even work, no app after Extract (using 7-ZIP Portable).

Let's say I forget this app forever.

a+,=)
-=Finiderire=-

"Let's say I forget this app forever."

Good. Can you forget this Website too?

@ finiderire: The word 'extract' at the 'How to extract:' is a link to an application called 'Universal Extractor'.
Use this to extract the installer file and follow the rest of the 'How to extract' instructions.

finiderire: "why not providing the program as a Zip file already "prepared" ?"

We are just listing this; we didn't develop it. Feel free to contact the developer at the "website" link and ask. The method that we have is a trick that enables portability on a great many terrific apps. Please see the site FAQ.

I feel as though the size of this application is incorrect. Even after deleting all unnecessary items the size of my TeraCopy is still 3.35MB. Is there something that I am missing?

@ BottleOfWater: Thanks ... and corrected ;)

Latest version for Windows XP is v2.3
Download: http://s3.amazonaws.com/codesector-us/teracopy.exe

Teracopy now at version 3.2

I've was able to copy about 10 GB of files from an aging and extremely noisy and slow hard drive via a USB adapter -- Would have gotten a head ache had I copied from windows explorer, or tried to. PS. 0/42 flagged by virus total, it's clean. PSS. Development seems to have slowed down but there's a beta floating that adds some features / fixes some issues...some other tools are better than TC like gsrichcopy 360/fast copy/robocopy