Progress dialog box question?

[harrismail]

I don't seem to see the feature:-

"Show progress dialog box when reading a directory takes longer than 5 seconds"

I see the question mark over where the file size will be but nothing more even when the calculation is much longer than 5 seconds.

What should I be seeing?

Steve

[Samuel]

Just press: Ctrl+B in "C:\".

[harrismail]

I must have misunderstood as I thought this feature would happen when I pressed the space bar on a directory to select it and show it's size?

Steve

[MVV]

I must have misunderstood as I thought this feature would happen when I pressed the space bar on a directory to select it and show it's size?

Yes. This feature allows to interrupt long folder opening e.g. if it contains a lot of files or it is inaccessible (e.g. network folder).

When you press Spacebar on folder, TC since version 7.55 puts calculation into background thread so you may continue working with TC (e.g. press Spacebar on another folder to add its size calculation to background thread's task list). While TC calculates folder size it writes ? as folder size and adds two green arrows to folder icon. When size is calculated TC removes green arrows and replaces ? with calculated size. Note that you may interrupt calculation with Escape.

[harrismail]

Thanks - that clears things up

Steve