"Look," Elias pointed. "It stopped!"

"What is it doing?" Elias asked, leaning closer to the screen.

For the next three hours, Elias didn't have to babysit the transfer. He didn't have to hit "Retry" or write complex batch scripts to skip files. RichCopy was a juggernaut. It chewed through the data, creating a perfect mirror of the source, preserving the complex ACL permissions that xcopy always seemed to mangle.

Elias typed the command he knew by heart: xcopy .