GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 659801
Move/Copy waits on a question in mid-transfer
Last modified: 2011-10-09 19:51:23 UTC
If a file move or copy encounters a problem while transfering files, it will stop in the middle of the transfer asking the user what to do. This is especially annoying when one moves or copies a large amount of files which takes several hours to transfer, (for example, Nautilus will get stuck on a random i/o problem on a single file 3 hours into the transfer on a file copy that will take 6 more hours after that. The transfer is left unattended over night and the user is greeted by the unfinished transfer in the morning). Nautilus could provide the option in the file transfer GUI to select what happens in case of errors before the errors actually occur.
(In reply to comment #0) > Nautilus could provide the option in the file transfer GUI to select what > happens in case of errors before the errors actually occur. How would that look like? How do you plan to cover all possibly existing error cases in an acceptable and readable UI?
Well perhaps something straightforward like an "Automatically continue in case of errors" checkbox? In the end you only need to differentiate between attended and unattended usage cases.
Another idea would be to skip error files and only ask what to do about them at the end of the transfer.
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 339420 ***