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cdwijs

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Registered: 2010-04-24

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I'm looking for an alternative for the copy program in gnome

Hi All,

When I copy a lot of files in gnome, gnome tries to copy all files at full speed at the same time. This takes more time than to copy the files one by one, because my harddrive can't read / write multiple files as fast as one file at a time.

Does anybody know a copy program for gnome that can setup a que of file operations?
Another feature I would love to have is that the copy program uses 90% of the available disk-io, so my laptop will still be responsive during copy.

I must admit I have not searched myself yet.

Best regards,
Cedric

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: I'm looking for an alternative for the copy program in gnome

Are you talking about cp command? If yes, then it is not gnome specific. and, as far as i know, it copies files one by one. One alternative that you can try for copying is the rsync command, it has an option to limit the I/O usage.

cdwijs

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Registered: 2010-04-24

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Re: I'm looking for an alternative for the copy program in gnome

I'm sorry, I was not very clear. I meant nautilus.

Best regards,
Cedric

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

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Re: I'm looking for an alternative for the copy program in gnome

When I copy a lot of files in gnome, gnome tries to copy all files at full speed at the same time.

How do you think it does? Source?

ngoonee

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Registered: 2009-03-17

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Re: I'm looking for an alternative for the copy program in gnome

When I copy a lot of files in gnome, gnome tries to copy all files at full speed at the same time.

How do you think it does? Source?

He's probably referring to him copy pasting multiple times (different files from different folders). In nautilus that results in N number of parallel copies, where N is the number of times you copy-pasted. I have not noticed it causing a slowdown though.

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Re: I'm looking for an alternative for the copy program in gnome

Another feature I would love to have is that the copy program uses 90% of the available disk-io, so my laptop will still be responsive during copy.

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Last edited by thestinger (2010-11-27 23:47:55)

delerious010

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From: Montreal

Registered: 2008-10-07

Posts: 72

Re: I'm looking for an alternative for the copy program in gnome

I'll agree that with you that it's far from optimal to have nautilus try to copy all of the files simultaneously rather than queueing them. I often have this problem as well when moving files over to my mp3 player.

ionice, or cgroups for that matter, might be interesting work around but they really don't solve the issue.

I think the OP would much rather a file manager with automated support for queueing of file transfers. I've no idea if such a thing exists, but if it does I too would be very much interested !!

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

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Re: I'm looking for an alternative for the copy program in gnome

I learnt from this thread -> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=48638
that Krusader supports queues, though i cannot confirm it.

Another possible method, though not very elegant, can be to connect to localhost using filezilla (ftp-client). It has nice and adjustable queuing abilities.