Windows PC’s have a Files and Settings Transfer wizard that you can use to transfer files. Usually the option to move files involves saving them to a CD-ROM or USB key. What if you have more files than will easily fit on those two items though? What would be nice is to plug a cable into the two computers to connect them directly.

The StarTech USB Data File Transfer Cable does exactly that.

Since the cable is USB 2.0, you’ll be able to transfer files between the two computers at 480Mbps.

The device works best when being used to transfer files from a Windows XP machine to another Vista machine. You can also use it to transfer from a Vista machine to a Vista machine, or Windows XP/Vista to Windows 7. From my own experience in testing out the device, it doesn’t work trying to transfer files between two Windows XP machines.

Did you follow that?

Basically if you’re upgrading to a new computer from an old one? You’re good to go. Pick up the StarTech USB Data File Transfer Cable and start moving your files almost effortlessly.

Post from: EveryJoe

Transfer Files from Your Old to New Computer

I’ve chosen FileZilla as my FTP program of choice. I’ve used CuteFTP, SmartFTP, and FireFTP within Firefox to manage transferring files. Given that I’m using FileZilla and it’s a powerful application there’s something I’d think it should be able to do and it can’t.

I want to save a group of files or folders as a set and then be able to upload that group of files with one click after I’ve connected to the server and location that I want to upload. Right now I can’t determine if that’s really possible with FileZilla.

The closest I’ve come is to pause the upload queue and drag folders and files into the queue. I can then export the queue as an XML file to reuse later. The only challenge with that is that the XML file also includes the remote server’s connection information. That’s where it gets hung up the destination server is what’s going to change each time.

If someone knows how to do that in FileZilla, please let me know. If one of the other apps I mentioned earlier can do it. Let me know that too, and I’ll go check them out again.

Post from: EveryJoe

Saving a Group of Files for Repeat Uploads in FileZilla

I’ve been trying to transfer a large number of files between a portable Western Digital 250GB hard drive and a secondary drive on another computer via a network. I’m running XP Pro on my laptop.

Smaller files are usually okay, but when I try and transfer some larger ones over 2GB up to 5GB I’ll get the following just about every time.

The text of the error message is:

Cannot copy [FILENAME]: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.

I’ve finally gotten the files moved where I need them to be, but the repeated error continues to bother me. I’m hoping my hard drive isn’t failing and going to leave me up a creek later when I’m relying on it for a backup.

A quick search of the error message produced this website with the results which were similar to mine. From the results it sounds like I need to move everything off of it, run CHKDSK /F and CHKDSK /R on it and let it all repair itself.

Post from: EveryJoe

I/O Error When Transferring Files