copy and paste bunch of directories didnt work

[u007]

ctrl+v or right click and paste, nothing happen

[jeremypw]

Thanks for the report but please use the following template so we have enough information to proceed. In particular detail the exact circumstances when the problem happened and whether it is reproducible. I did not find any problem copy and pasting sets of folders.

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[u007]

hi,
it turn out it is copying, indicated at the icon level, but there are no dialog popup to indicate the progress.

[jeremypw]

A progress window should appear if the operation takes longer than about 2 seconds, but not for quick operations. How long did the operation take in your case?

There have been a couple of reports about the progress window not always appearing when expected (#137, #1050).

[yozachar]

An observation: First time Ctrl+C on a particular file does not work. We have to select another file and select back this particular file to then Ctrl+C works. (Usually for any of the just downloaded files)

[u007]

my operations took about 3 hours or more, copying huge amount o files

[jeremypw]

@u007 Thanks for the info. Files is known to struggle handling very large numbers of files :-(. I think some preparation process e.g. preparing for undoing, is blocking everything, including the showing of the progress window. Really, the old C library that handles file operations needs rewriting (in Vala). Some work has begun on that but progress is slow.

See #1, #128, #722 for similar issues previously raised.

[jeremypw]

@u007 There is a PR (#1154) that may fix this problem. If you are able to test it that would be helpful. You would need to be familiar with compiling and installing from source code though.

[jeremypw]

Closing at we need a fresh report on Odin, which has a fair amount of rewritten file operation code (ported to Vala).