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Bug 413748 - Focus on one file, when copying from DVD/CD-ROM.
Focus on one file, when copying from DVD/CD-ROM.
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 124783
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File and Folder Operations
2.16.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-03-02 05:54 UTC by Mathias Hasselmann (IRC: tbf)
Modified: 2010-12-18 01:41 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.15/2.16



Description Mathias Hasselmann (IRC: tbf) 2007-03-02 05:54:17 UTC
Please describe the problem:
DVD and CD-ROM drives have horrible seek times. Therefore copying from such a file becomes painfully slow, if you copy two files at the same time. Maybe Nautilus should detect such a situation and execute only one copy request and pause all others having the same CD-ROM drive as source. As an example copying about 4 GB from my DVD drive takes just 10 minutes when copying just one file. When trying to copy multiple files at the same time it suddenly takes about an hour to finish this operation. Guess we should take this chance to be better than our competition.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open a DVD containing large files ("File A", "File B").
2. Select "File A" and "File B" and drag them both on your Desktop. Note the time it takes to copy them.
3. Erase the copies on your Desktop.
4. Select just "File A" and drag it on your desktop.
5. Before copying "File A" finishes also select "File B" and drag it.


Actual results:
Variant described in step 2 takes about 10 minutes for copying 4 GB of data. Variant described in steps 4 and 5 takes nearly an hour to finish.

Expected results:
Both variants take a similiar amount of time.

Does this happen every time?
Yes, if you rally copy from some DVD/CD-ROM drive.

Other information:
Comment 1 Przemysław Kulczycki 2008-09-06 13:05:26 UTC
I think this would be useful also for hard disks - seeks while copying multiple files at once make the whole operation slower. Files copied/moved from or to the same device should be placed in queue and copied/moved one after another.
Comment 2 Przemysław Kulczycki 2008-09-06 13:15:02 UTC
There is a nice visualisation of this idea on Ubuntu wiki:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/copy_queing
Comment 3 Piet Vanraad 2008-12-11 16:03:55 UTC
Was added to the bugtracker of ubuntu here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/306630
Comment 4 Cosimo Cecchi 2010-12-18 01:41:11 UTC
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 124783 ***