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fifafrazer

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Registered: 2008-02-18

Posts: 81

Looking for a file manager with copy queue

Hey,
I'm looking for a file manager with a file-copy-queue feature.
It is useful when browsing mounted samba shares, and you find something you want to copy.
You'll then start copying the files, and then spot another useful folder. You start copying that as well
and suddenly you got 5 different file copies processing at the same time, which decreases the copy speed.
I also miss the feature when transfering files from my external harddrives.

If there is a lot of FM's with this feature, I prefer one without kde-dependencies, as I am using xfce.

Ink-Jet

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From: London

Registered: 2008-03-27

Posts: 64

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Re: Looking for a file manager with copy queue

I think the latest release of Nautilus has this feature, but obviously has gnome dependencies.

kenshis

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Registered: 2008-12-16

Posts: 52

Re: Looking for a file manager with copy queue

Hello, I'm looking for a manager with this feature too. Can't believe, that Nautilus is the only one. Any other suggestions pleezz :)

Procyon

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Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 1,819

Re: Looking for a file manager with copy queue

You could use a simple script:

#! /bin/bash
#queue copy
#call with cp's arguments, e.g. qc -R -- /usr/bin/mplayer /tmp

while pgrep '^cp$'; do
sleep 5
done

cp "$@"

And then run that in the background.

kenshis

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Registered: 2008-12-16

Posts: 52

Re: Looking for a file manager with copy queue

Well, this is only a workaround that can't replace file manager, but thanks for the reply

seenxu

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Registered: 2008-08-25

Posts: 111

Re: Looking for a file manager with copy queue

If you like cli app, give mc a try. and they just released a new version 4.6.2.

http://www.midnight-commander.org/downloads/

Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 2,577

Re: Looking for a file manager with copy queue

If MC really does have that as a feature, it's once again proved itself _the_ graphical (sorta) file manager.

briest

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From: Katowice, PL

Registered: 2006-05-04

Posts: 468

Re: Looking for a file manager with copy queue

I use batch (from at package, requires running atd) to queue long and potentially resource-hungry operations. It is not a file manager, of course

seenxu

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Registered: 2008-08-25

Posts: 111

Re: Looking for a file manager with copy queue

If MC really does have that as a feature, it's once again proved itself _the_ graphical (sorta) file manager.

sorry for misinformed.

mc has a background job option while copying, it is not exactly a queue like functionality, but simulating to be a queue, and you can stop/resume a background job.

tad

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Registered: 2006-12-08

Posts: 19

Re: Looking for a file manager with copy queue

Unfortunately, Nautilus doesn't have an actual copy queue. It just groups multiple file operations into a single 'File Operations' window. There's probably a Gnome-Bugzilla feature request for it now.

kenshis

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Registered: 2008-12-16

Posts: 52

Re: Looking for a file manager with copy queue

krusader 2 does have queuing ability

joephantom

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From: Latinoamérica

Registered: 2008-01-09

Posts: 94

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Re: Looking for a file manager with copy queue

krusader 2 does have queuing ability

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Rasi

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-14

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Re: Looking for a file manager with copy queue

+1 for krusader

how do you use this function in mc?

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dany

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Registered: 2009-12-05

Posts: 1

Re: Looking for a file manager with copy queue

Hi guys,
I just wrote a patch for Midnight Commander which allow me to keep in running once job a time.

If you need...

Dany

kenshis

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Registered: 2008-12-16

Posts: 52

Re: Looking for a file manager with copy queue

Yea @dany, i'm interested.
How does it work? Does it moves operation to background, and then just executes them on after other? That is, can i see somewhere what operations are pending, and if needed, can i stop it?