Hey guys! I work for a lawyer and have received over 250 CD-Roms with scanned legal documents from a twenty year career among hundreds of lawyers. Each CD-Rom has about 20,000 files on it. It's crazy, I know!
Anyway, I need to put them all on a master computer. When I put a CD-Rom into the computer and try to transfer the files, after about 15,000 files I get the message "There is not enough memory to complete this operation." The only thing I can do is restart the computer and finish it that way. This means I would have to restart the computer twice for each CD-Rom. This means I'd have to restart the computer over 500 times just to do this task! At three minutes per reboot, this would be impossible.
I think the memory is failing because of the sheer volume of files. Even though the files are not very large, because there thousands of them, it's wearing down the system. Is there any way that I can "refresh" the computer without restarting? This computer is a newish HP laptop with Windows Vista, 2 gigs of RAM, a high processor speed.
I noticed once that Explorer crashed during the process, and when it recovered from the crash, the memory was back and I could continue finishing a CD-Rom. So I assume there's a way to refresh the memory! Any idea, guys? I'd love you FOREVER!
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