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Bug 458081 - Speed up slow copies
Speed up slow copies
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 593229
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File and Folder Operations
2.18.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-07-18 20:14 UTC by pepevilluela
Modified: 2010-08-01 10:55 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.17/2.18


Description pepevilluela 2007-07-18 20:14:54 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
I have discovered that pressing "UP" (and then changing folder) button when I'm pasting a copy, copy speeds up. This is very noticeable when I'm copying to an USB drive. I think nautilus is reading information from files before they finish their copies, and this is slowing writes.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Select ten video files and copy
2. select an usb drive folder
3. Paste them
4. Press "UP" button


Actual results:
copy speeds up

Expected results:
copy must be same speed without press "UP" button

Does this happen every time?
Yes

Other information:
Comment 1 Marcus Carlson 2010-07-28 21:29:47 UTC 
This is probably because nautilus is creating thumbnails for the new files and hence need to download them first to do this.

Cosimo, is it possible to pause thumbnail generation in the destination folder when copying files?
Comment 2 Cosimo Cecchi 2010-08-01 10:55:56 UTC 
Let's close this as a duplicate of bug #593229.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 593229 ***