GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 303160
queue copies to same target
Last modified: 2021-06-18 15:29:50 UTC
if copy file A do it in 1 minute and file B do it in 1 minute, if i try to copy at same time A and B do it in 4 minutes. It's because target media is slow and switch in both copy slow process. Feature: all copy is a LIFO, when you add a file to copy, this file is the first to copy and stop previous files, when this file finished, the another files continues copying.
I'm not sure than people want to delay the first copied file because they start copying other stuff. Any maintainer with an advice on this?
im the same of feature request. Really, it can be a lifo or a fifo, the important thing is dont copy at same time because it'll be slooooower than copy one and then another.
Now that in Nautilus 2.11 the list view can display a whole folder hierarchy (tree view), you can open the source media root and select multiple files which are at totally different hierarchy positions. You can then copy those and paste them wherever you want to get serial copying. I'm almost willing to close this bug report, we just need you feedback whether you think the proposed solution is appropriate.
[I'm the bug reporter, but now with a new bugzilla-gnome account] Christian, I think that isnt a solution for the problem. The problem is copy files in a parallel mode is always inefficient. the head of HD is jumping either two positions (or more). if the media is slow (i.e. an usb-disk), the penalty is to hight. If you allow user start another copy (in same media) before last copy ended, i suggest you put new copy in a fifo (and dont start new copy until las copy ended). In the other hand, you can forgive start a copy is another file is copying. But, i think the first idea is better. yours, jamarier
I think copies to the same target should queue - I've noticed when copying multiple large files to a USB stick it's much slower than doing them in series, but I don't want to have to sit over the computer waiting for each one to complete in order to start the next one. A solution requiring the use of a particular Nautilus view is not acceptable, especially when the default is supposed to be spatial folder view.
Queuing copies to the same target makes some sense to me.
*** Bug 706758 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 719954 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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