Moving Semi-Large Folder

[DoovidToonet]

I was wondering if anyone here knew what the best method would be to move a semi-large folder (330 MB) from my PC onto a shared folder. This is at work, and when I try to just move the folder into the shared folder it gives an ETA of over an hour, which I can't really do since they want me to be here and wait until it's finished. Would it be easier and faster to compress the folder, move it into the server, then extract it? I know this sounds like a stupid question, but I have never encountered a system where it takes over an hour to transfer less than 1GB.

[Takumidesh]

what is the bottleneck here? an eta of one hour implies a 93kb transfer speed. are you using usb 1.0?

 

what are you transferring from/to.

what devices are used to perform the transfer (disk to disk, over ethernet, onto a usb and back, etc)

 

You can use teracopy to perform the transfer and you will get much more information about the process, including a more accurate ETA calculation.
teracopy can also do a hashcheck to verify the transfer (which depending on your situation may be enough to convince them to let you leave while the transfer is being done)

[DoovidToonet]

2 minutes ago, Takumidesh said:

what is the bottleneck here? an eta of one hour implies a 93kb transfer speed. are you using usb 1.0?

 

what are you transferring from/to.

what devices are used to perform the transfer (disk to disk, over ethernet, onto a usb and back, etc)

I assume it's network, this is being done over an ethernet connection and not USB. Transferring from my work computer to a shared folder.

1 minute ago, Takumidesh said:

You can use teracopy to perform the transfer and you will get much more information about the process, including a more accurate ETA calculation.

Unfortunately I am just an accountant at the company, so I do not have access to anything outside of non-administrator Windows functions. 

[Takumidesh]

is the folder filled with thousands of small size documents? this can cause slow transfers because of all the overhead of managing all of the files.

[DoovidToonet]

2130 files within 348 folders

[jaslion]

21 minutes ago, DoovidToonet said:

2130 files within 348 folders

That'll do it. Zip it, send it unpack it.

[Kilrah]

1 hour ago, jaslion said:

That'll do it. Zip it, send it unpack it.

As a user they won't have access to unpack it on the server, and unpacking it from their end would just... transfer everything back and forth again and be way slower.

Not much you can do in your position.