In the copy dialog there is a Queue option, but if not used at this point later is impossible to Queue. Often I decide to Queue after I started 1st copy operation. During the copy operation the progress window shows 3 options: Pause,Cancel,Background, I wish to be another: Queue (or this one to replace Background). I dont see much benefit in copying (huge files) in parallel so Queue option should be preferable to Background
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Queue option during copy
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sqa_wizard
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Probably that the behavior could be to pause the current task and continue when the queue continue process it later. When you have multiple files/folders you could complete in background the current one and put the remaining operations in the queue.sqa_wizard wrote:What is the benefit of putting an already started copy task to the "Background Transfer Manager"?
It will be just create another new copy task.
The current file copy would stop, already copied part will be lost.
About the "poor" queue manager, I really miss queuing unzipping operations...
The "big" benefit is that once you started a copy operation you would be able to queue another "after" instead of "along" with the background one. Queue operations are sequential only with those inside the queue and are concurent with background copy operations. If you start a copy operation of a 20GB blue-ray rip to an external drive, then you decide you also want another 20GB rip queued, you will queue it for nothing because both operations will run concurently and there is no option to change that, with the obvious drawbacks: file defragmantation, if you have to cancel you need to cancel all because nothing is completed if they go in parallel.sqa_wizard wrote:What is the benefit of putting an already started copy task to the "Background Transfer Manager"?
It will be just create another new copy task.
The current file copy would stop, already copied part will be lost.
...and obviously I do not want any copied part to be lost, just to be queued and continued from where it left when its turn comes.
Tbh, I cannot believe that this need was not realized or that no one complained about it before. The whole queue feature is useless if one does not plan ahead to use it. Change please "background" with "Queue" inside copy progress window as the smart thing to do when doing multiple copy ops (on the same target device) would be to queue not to background.
Yes but this is not inside TC and you need to buy another tool.. (you did give the tip 4 years ago )ZoSTeR wrote:You can queue unpack operations with WinRar.
Also some file manager like multi commander have this feature.