while waiting for an answer proceed with other files

[robvarga]

Hi,

it would be really-really useful, if TC would proceed with other files which do not depend on the answer when asking about what to do in certain cases during copying (or other similar situations).

I had to copy many thousands of files, several gigabytes in total between machines. I left it to go on, then went home. When I got back next morning, I was greeted with a dialog box asking what to do with long file path-s, and overall progress was around 9%.

Ideally, TC would proceed with files which the answer does not affect in the background, and delay only those few files which should really be delayed because there are pending questions for them.

A simpler implementation would be that TC could first process files which are not dependent on any questions, then process whatever remained as it would process currently with asking questions and waiting for answers. This way there is no need to implement multithreaded processing to handle answers while copying, in the hope that files affected by questions would be a minority (because questions would come only at the end, not immediately).

Best regards,

Robert

[TMg]

I like this idea very much. This would be very nice especially for file copy operations and FTP transfers done in the background. Please note that both ideas will change the order the files are processed. But I do not think this is a problem.

[pim]

Yes, I think this would be a very useful feature. Furthermore it would be nice if Total Commander could skip files which are unavailable etc. and proceed with the other files. (As in teracopy).

[pim]

Teracopy.

I wanted to post this in the first reply, but couldn't.

[robvarga]

I like this idea very much. This would be very nice especially for file copy operations and FTP transfers done in the background. Please note that both ideas will change the order the files are processed. But I do not think this is a problem.

If the order of files is relevant, then a third option is to just traverse the directory structure first, collect all the questions, ask them all together at start and then start the actual copying.

This way starts takes longer, but the order of files remains the same.