xboxboy Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 I've just done a major copy of data from an external disk drive I use for backup to my desktop. At first a box pops up showing the data transfer, but then it disappears. How can I tell when the data transfer is complete? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
{BBI}Nexus{BBI} Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 The box disappears to the systray (my icon is a lifebuoy) sometimes it hangs around long enough for you to click on it. You can then see if the transfer has completed. Other than that the only other notification I have seen is at the bottom of the dolphin file manager. It says something like 'Copy operation completed' along with a checkmark. I hope they improve notification, with a popup (configurable of course) that disappears when you click it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted April 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 Thanks Nexus....I agree that it needs improvement and the click box is my wish. Its a bit daunting waiting for 50+gb to transfer, I have no idea how long it takes on my new box. The light on my drive has stopped flashing so I pretty sure its all done. Didn't actually take note of the bottom of Dolphin at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 I lost many GB of downloaded HD movies like this already :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 krusader... press F5 (copy), and then instead of enter, F2 (queue). Done- you will have the queue window visible all the time until the operation is finished... Best graphical filemanager for Linux by far, and second best overall after MC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 Aaron Seigo has sort off admitted that the notification for filecopying was rather flawed, atm they are looking at reverting to 4.1 behaviour of try to keep the notification open longer but imho such a big flaw should have been fixed with the first possible update and not be discussed/looked into... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted April 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2009 As nexus stated the box does disappear to the tray, and then it can be clicked upon and the progress shown. I just done another batch of transfers and was sure to watch the progress this time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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