How to: copyparty.exe
download [copyparty.exe](https://github.com/9001/copyparty/releases/latest/download/copyparty.exe) (win8+) or [copyparty32.exe](https://github.com/9001/copyparty/releases/latest/download/copyparty32.exe) (win7+)

![copyparty-exe-fs8](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/241032/221445946-1e328e56-8c5b-44a9-8b9f-dee84d942535.png)

can be convenient on machines where installing python is problematic, however is **not recommended** -- if possible, please use **[copyparty-sfx.py](https://github.com/9001/copyparty/releases/latest/download/copyparty-sfx.py)** instead

* [copyparty.exe](https://github.com/9001/copyparty/releases/latest/download/copyparty.exe) runs on win8 or newer, was compiled on win10, does thumbnails + media tags, and is *currently* safe to use, but any future python/expat/pillow CVEs can only be remedied by downloading a newer version of the exe

  * on win8 it needs [vc redist 2015](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145), on win10 it just works
  * some antivirus may freak out (false-positive), possibly [Avast, AVG, and McAfee](https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/52391a1e9842cf70ad243ef83844d46d29c0044d101ee0138fcdd3c8de2237d6/detection)

* dangerous: [copyparty32.exe](https://github.com/9001/copyparty/releases/latest/download/copyparty32.exe) is compatible with [windows7](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/241032/221445944-ae85d1f4-d351-4837-b130-82cab57d6cca.png), which means it uses an ancient copy of python (3.7.9) which cannot be upgraded and should never be exposed to the internet (LAN is fine)

* dangerous and deprecated: [copyparty-winpe64.exe](https://github.com/9001/copyparty/releases/download/v1.8.7/copyparty-winpe64.exe) lets you [run copyparty in WinPE](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/241032/205454984-e6b550df-3c49-486d-9267-1614078dd0dd.png) and is otherwise completely useless

meanwhile [copyparty-sfx.py](https://github.com/9001/copyparty/releases/latest/download/copyparty-sfx.py) instead relies on your system python which gives better performance and will stay safe as long as you keep your python install up-to-date

then again, if you are already into downloading shady binaries from the internet, you may also want my [minimal builds](./scripts/pyinstaller#ffmpeg) of [ffmpeg](https://ocv.me/stuff/bin/ffmpeg.exe) and [ffprobe](https://ocv.me/stuff/bin/ffprobe.exe) which enables copyparty to extract multimedia-info, do audio-transcoding, and thumbnails/spectrograms/waveforms, however it's much better to instead grab a [recent official build](https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/ffmpeg-git-full.7z) every once ina while if you can afford the size