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What does "preparing for copy" do?
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Mar 15, 202615351 viewsConfidence Score0%
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When copying large numbers of files in one sweep, windows requires quite some time to prepare the copy? The same happens when deleting large amounts of files. What is happening here? What preparations are going on there?
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"Preparing to copy" is a special feature that allows to delay the whole process by unreasonable amount of time and gives you more time to appreciate a fancy dialogue box created by Microsoft designers. While windows is "preparing to copy" it does no…
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