Queuing tasks that write to hard drive
 

I am looking for some kind of Windows plugin/extension or even a 3rd party windows explorer that queues tasks that would otherwise try to simultaneously be written to a hard drive.

While moving some stuff from my laptop to my external hard drive, I want the move tasks to be queued, and not run concurrently. This is a waste of time for the transfers, seems to horrible fragment my files, slows down my computer, corrupted a file (could be coincidental), threw up on my friend at a fancy party, and hit on my girlfriend when I left the room. It is just not an efficient way to go about it.

There must be something out there that accomplishes this.

use syncback

I have something similar, and I would use that if it wasn't inconvenient. I would settle for a program that has a simple dual folder list view structure that would allow me to drag and drop contents from one list to another, but queue the transfers if there are multiple transfers to one hard drive.

KISS; multiple transfers? like mulitple folders and multiple file sets?

inconvenient? I don't understand how it is inconvenient setup and to run the task on a schedule when you aren't even using the computer

I have something scheduled to zip a bunch of directories, then 30 minutes later upload the zip file to a FTP site. It does that a couple times for the totaly amount of applications I'm backing up. It does it 6 days a week. I can't think of anything more convenient.

you can even set up a watch folder so that it will only move files if it finds something new.

Syncback and Synctoy are great but only with predefined folders / profiles, and usually for scheduled tasks. These tools, to me, are inconvenient when I, on a whim, just want to drag and drop lists of folders to be transferred to speed up my disc cleaning.

gotcha... i'm out i got nothing

Thanks anyways. I worked on stuff while it was going, and once I noticed the absence of the white-noise like hum of my external, I set another thing to move.

ah :) manual... :)

Why not just use xcopy for the entire set.

Or... Make a short batch file. ie

copy file1 fileA
copy file2 fileB
copy file3 fileC

Save as foo.bat. Double click on foo.bat

Yeah, I know I could have made a BAT script, but it would just be nicer to have a program that does it for me... At the time I was particularly lazy and wanted some eye candy to move my files one at a time and not cram as much information as Windows could through the USB2 connection.

I figured that you guys already knew - or that I'd missed something.