File Copy Slowness

dbortunk · Post by **dbortunk** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 10:41 am

Why is it that "Create File List" used with a Text Loop-Copy/Move File is very slow to process as opposed to a straight Copy/Move task? The problem with using a straight Copy/Move file task is that there are no Date Filter options there. Is there a reason for this?

Post by **Oleg** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 11:03 am

Because if you use file list in the Copy/Move action this is only one action.
In this case RoboTask uses only optimised native program code and it doesn't need to make the interpretation of the task.

dbortunk · Post by **dbortunk** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 11:11 am

So why can't the file filter part be built into the Copy/Move task to make it faster

Post by **Oleg** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 12:14 pm

You simply may do you task like this:

Search for file // and save to c:\filelist.txt
Copy/Move files // specify in the file list {TextFile(c:\filelist.txt)}

dbortunk · Post by **dbortunk** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 12:19 pm

You mean as opposed to doing the text loop? What is the disadvantage to doing it that way or the advantage of using the text loop?