Windows 10: How to move sparse file maintening the real sparse dimensions

Hi everyone,

I need to move "sparse" files from one disk to another. Both ntfs obviously.

I want the size occupied on the target disk to be the same as the source disk. So not the final dimension but the "sparse" dimension.

How can I solve it?

EDIT: I would like to make a script to move only files from a certain maximum size down.

:)

 

How to move sparse file maintening the real sparse dimensions

Hi everyone,

I need to move "sparse" files from one disk to another. Both ntfs obviously.

I want the size occupied on the target disk to be the same as the source disk. So not the final dimension but the "sparse" dimension.

How can I solve it?

EDIT: I would like to make a script to move only files from a certain maximum size down.

 

How to move sparse file maintening the real sparse dimensions

@einstein1969,

Unless I'm way off base, my understanding is that if you copy or move a sparse file from one NTFS volume to another NTFS volume, the sparse file will remain a sparse file. Have you actually tried this as a test to see if that is the case?

 

How to move sparse file maintening the real sparse dimensions

I have tried dos command "move", "robocopy", "CS.exe" command . Nothing of this work.

This is the script that have made for my "emule" .part file sparse.

Code:

But not work. It mark a file sparse but after move.