Background MOVE/COPY improvement

[BAYRAM]

Hi,
First of all I must to say "Total Commander is my favorite program in about 10 years. Thanks lot for the programmers"

In Total Commander, my favorite thing is "background copy/move" options. Many times 5-6 different copy/move working in the same time in my Total Commander. Because I don't want to wait some operations.

For the max performance for HDD and low defragmentation I manualy pause one by one (the little copy/move status windows) and start one copy/move at a time and so on. My suggestion is maybe "background" selection will work my way otomaticly. When one operations will be done in background, TC start the other operations...

What do u think ?

[Balderstrom]

Yes it would be nice if TC had the same option/setting that WinRar has:
* Wait if other instances are active.

So when you start multiple unpacks for WinRAR it will process them in sequence instead of trying to do them all at once.

[fenix_productions]

2BAYRAM
Why pausing when you can use background transfer manager?

You can also make it always work:

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AlwaysCopyInBackground=2

[Balderstrom]

@Fenix, when I've sent multiple copies to the background, both of them try to read/write at the same time...

[fenix_productions]

@Fenix, when I've sent multiple copies to the background, both of them try to read/write at the same time...

True but:

For the max performance for HDD and low defragmentation I manualy pause one by one (the little copy/move status windows) and start one copy/move at a time and so on. My suggestion is maybe "background" selection will work my way otomaticly. When one operations will be done in background, TC start the other operations...

That is why I propose to take a look on:

AlwaysCopyInBackground=0
1: Total Commander always copies in the background
2: Always use background transfer manager

Setting it to 2 will put each copied file into queue in BTM automatically. Only one file will be copied at the time and that is what BAYRAM wants to (at least that is what I understood).

[Balderstrom]

Ah I misunderstood, didn't realize AlwaysCopyInBackground=2 would auto-enable queing when doing so manually doesn't.

[BAYRAM]

Thanks lot.

I change my way little bit and its ok.

Before:
-I start the copy/move
-I click the Background button

Now:
-I start the copy/move with F2-Queue button

Thats ok with me.
Thanks.

[mab007]

Have similar idea, mentioned in this thread.