On Saturday 29 March 2008, Stroller wrote:
> Thanks! I'll look into PING. The documentation on PING's homepage  
> seems a little scanty, but I'm sure a Google will be a bit more  
> forthcoming.

It's very easy to use, I found a pdf somewhere that described it in few
pages.

> There are a couple of reasons I appreciate copying on a file-by-file
>   basis - I don't know if PING would allow me the same flexibility.

Sure it won't. You provide plenty of examples...
While reading them I remembered dar & kdar but it seems the latter is no
more actively mantained. And anyway not a solution for windows users if
you want to let them to take a bit of care of themselves.

An option is to shrink the old disk to a secondary partition and leave
it on the same disk, but again having another partition isn't the best
for end users: it's easier to claim back space without specializer
tools if everything's is just a folder away.

Ciao
 Francesco
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