Figure 1. In the CopyDoubler Control Panel window you may access its many preference windows.
Figure 2. CopyDoubler offers many options in the Fast Copy and Fast Empty Trash Preferences windows.
Figure 3. If you try to trash a locked file incorrectly, you’ll be reminded of the proper way to do it. Even without CopyDoubler you get a similar reminder. There should be little need to set automatic locked file deletion as a default. You could inadvertently lose data if you do.
Figure 4. In the Sound Preferences window you may select any installed sound to notify you of certain CopyDoubler actions. You’ll quack up your friends in the office for sure.
Figure 5. CopyDoubler replaces the standard Copy progress dialog box with one of its own. Click of the inverted triangle at the lower right corner to bring up the expanded view.
Figure 6. CopyDoubler’s detailed Copy progress box keeps you abreast of its innermost workings as it copies.
Figure 7. These options appear if you depress the Control key as you copy. Delayed copying is activated by selecting the Later With CopyDoubler radio button.
Figure 8. The Schedule Setup window, accessed from the copy options dialog shown in Figure 7, offers a multitude of possibilities for delayed copying. Despite its apparent complexity it is surprisingly easy to configure.
Figure 9. Before a Fast Replace you are asked if you are certain you want to replace the destination item of the same name.
Figure 10. After a Fast Replace a dialog tells you what was done.
Figure 11. CopyDoubler moderately reduced the time needed to copy items to an internal 1.4 MB floppy disk.
Figure 12. CopyDoubler dramatically accelerated file and folder copying between hard drives. Data shown here are for internal–external drive copies. Similar proportional improvements were obtained with external–external hard drive copies.
Figure 13. Finder 7.1 improved by System 7 Pack!—denoted here as “Fast Finder”—gave almost the same speed boost as CopyDoubler with an unimproved Finder 7.1. Data shown here are for internal–external hard drive copies.
