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Background button when calculating
Posted: 2006-12-15, 22:48 UTC
by F.R.@.N.K
When you try to delete a big (ammount of files) directory then TC goes thinking about how to do it probably.
This will take up to 15 seconds before TC gives the message if you want to delete the dir with all its contents in it. During this time there is no background button, so you have to wait till TC is ready thinking....
My suggestion, add the background button.
Posted: 2006-12-16, 16:23 UTC
by Cineatic
You can completely disable the size calculating if you want to delete a directory. Normally you haven't to know how many files your're deleting.
You can find this option under Settings - Operation
Posted: 2006-12-17, 15:39 UTC
by Valentino
I wrote email to the author about this 2 months ago:
Valentino wrote:When deleting directories, TC first counts its size. It’s cool. I don’t want to switch this feature off in general. But sometimes for big directories it takes quite much time to count dir size. It would be nice if user could skip this when he wants. I don’t know how it’s easier for you to do this. Maybe show one more button (“Skip size counting”) on Delete Progress dialog in place of “Background” button. When TC finishes counting and starts deleting, this button will be changed to “Background”. Or maybe it’s easier to show one more window (“Counting dir size...”) on top of Delete dialog with Skip button.
The same can be applied to other dialogs (Copy, Pack, not sure about Move).
and he answered:
Christian Ghisler wrote:I will add it to my wish list.
Posted: 2006-12-17, 20:48 UTC
by F.R.@.N.K
Valentino wrote:I wrote email to the author about this 2 months ago:
Valentino wrote:When deleting directories, TC first counts its size. It’s cool. I don’t want to switch this feature off in general. But sometimes for big directories it takes quite much time to count dir size. It would be nice if user could skip this when he wants. I don’t know how it’s easier for you to do this. Maybe show one more button (“Skip size counting”) on Delete Progress dialog in place of “Background” button. When TC finishes counting and starts deleting, this button will be changed to “Background”. Or maybe it’s easier to show one more window (“Counting dir size...”) on top of Delete dialog with Skip button.
The same can be applied to other dialogs (Copy, Pack, not sure about Move).
and he answered:
Christian Ghisler wrote:I will add it to my wish list.
Great, so problem (will be) solved!
Posted: 2006-12-18, 09:03 UTC
by Valentino
Yes, but we do not know when. Christian
says his to do list is very very long
It would be interesting to know the size of this list, 500 items, 1000, 5000?
Posted: 2006-12-19, 20:35 UTC
by ghisler(Author)
About 1000.
Posted: 2006-12-19, 21:38 UTC
by StickyNomad
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ghisler(Author)
About 1000.
oh well, that's what I call a serious list! Seems like you have enough work already until about TC 15.0
Posted: 2006-12-20, 11:59 UTC
by Valentino
ghisler(Author) wrote:About 1000.
My middle estimation was correct
StickyNomad wrote:2
ghisler(Author)
About 1000.
oh well, that's what I call a serious list! Seems like you have enough work already until about TC 15.0
Well the list indeed is impressive.
I undersand that you won't provide the whole list for public polls but... are there any diplomatic ways for us to move items in your list up and down? Besides screaming in the forum
Posted: 2006-12-22, 18:14 UTC
by ghisler(Author)
No.
Posted: 2006-12-25, 06:59 UTC
by Sosna
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ghisler(Author) - maybe it's possible to add something like SHIFT-key modificator to skip size count? (so if one press DEL - TC will first count size, if SHIFT-DEL - it woun't) ? (I know, shift is already binded, so maybe ALT? (OR CTRL+ALT
)
Posted: 2006-12-25, 19:19 UTC
by F.R.@.N.K
To me it doesn't matter that it's counting (although it would be nice to skip it) but I like a button to continue my work (background). Now I have to wait for TC to finish calculating and then I can background it.
Its all about multi tasking.... Let the PC do its work when it has time and let me do mine....
Posted: 2006-12-25, 22:10 UTC
by Hacker
(although it would be nice to skip it)
Escape should work.
Roman
Posted: 2006-12-27, 22:30 UTC
by F.R.@.N.K
I see, thanks. But is there a setting that it skips this by default when copying or moving?
Posted: 2006-12-27, 23:30 UTC
by Hacker
Configuration - Options - Operation - Calculate space occupied by subdirectories - before copying/deleting.
HTH
Roman