Temporary Panel and USB - really slow

ctiberg · Post by *ctiberg » 2006-01-23, 15:12 UTC

Hello!

Does anyone know why it is that I can copy with fairly high speed from hard disk to my MP3 player using USB, but the speed drops tenfold when I copy from a Temporary Panel (plugin) to the same player?

SanskritFritz · Post by *SanskritFritz » 2006-01-23, 15:14 UTC

I'd say, TC is not using compatibility mode for the plugin. I dont know why tho...

ctiberg · Post by *ctiberg » 2006-01-23, 15:16 UTC

That was my thought too. But it is a real pain in the you know what. I very much like to use the Temporary Panel sometimes when I'm gathering songs to fill up the player, but I might have to use a temporary directory on disk instead - which isn't very good, to say the least

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2006-01-23, 19:07 UTC

When you copy a file from a plugin, then it's not Total Commander which copies the files, it's the plugin itself! Total Commander just tells the plugin to copy a file from x to y, and the plugin does the rest. This is necessary because plugins may get the data from ftp, unix partitions or any other location which Total Commander doesn't know.

ctiberg · Post by *ctiberg » 2006-01-24, 10:04 UTC

Yeah well, I should've thought of that. I've made my own FS plugin(s), after all...

What is it that TC does that makes the USB writes so quick then? Do you have a link with more info, or perhaps even to some code?

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2006-01-24, 10:15 UTC

Yes, just don't copy the file yourself, but call the function CopyFileEx instead. It seems that Microsoft wrote a workaround to the missing write cache in that function.

ctiberg · Post by *ctiberg » 2006-01-24, 11:49 UTC

Thanks for that, it helped a lot. I guess that I'll either have to write my own TurboTempPanel - or try to find some plugin already out there with that functionality. Any tips?

icfu · Post by *icfu » 2006-01-24, 13:16 UTC

Have you tried FileRedirector?
http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/FileRedirector.html

Icfu

ctiberg · Post by *ctiberg » 2006-01-24, 13:26 UTC

No, I haven't - and it seems like overkill for just the thing that I want to do. Temporary Panel is perfect for this, except for this USB thingy...

I don't have songs on multiple discs yet, they're all in the same dir. The reason for using a Temporary Panel is that I can go into various directories and copy songs, and then easily delete them again if I decide to. It's kinda hard to select multiple files from multiple subdirectories in TC - and everywhere else, too

icfu · Post by *icfu » 2006-01-24, 13:27 UTC

File Redirector IS a Temporary Panel plugin, the best one out there for TC actually.

Icfu

SanskritFritz · Post by *SanskritFritz » 2006-01-24, 14:59 UTC

It's kinda hard to select multiple files from multiple subdirectories in TC - and everywhere else, too

Is branch view (Ctrl-B) not suitable for this?

ctiberg · Post by *ctiberg » 2006-01-24, 15:29 UTC

SanskritFritz wrote:Is branch view (Ctrl-B) not suitable for this?

Nah, not really, not when you've got thousands of files and some have very bad names...

ctiberg · Post by *ctiberg » 2006-01-24, 15:31 UTC

icfu wrote:File Redirector IS a Temporary Panel plugin, the best one out there for TC actually.

TC won't even load it for me, complains about MSVCR70.DLL, which I don't seem to have...

SanskritFritz · Post by *SanskritFritz » 2006-01-24, 15:40 UTC

TC won't even load it for me, complains about MSVCR70.DLL, which I don't seem to have...

http://www.totalcmd.net/comments.php?plugin=FileRedirector

ctiberg · Post by *ctiberg » 2006-01-24, 15:53 UTC

Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll roll my own sooner or later, too much about the plugin is in russian. And getting hold of that DLL is too much bother right now.