Default File Manager with Unity8 in future desktops

[Paul Daniels]

Just found reference to this via duck duck go on android.

As a system administrator I have to say can handle a LARGE amount for
files in copy and move operations. By large I mean >20K files or >5GB of
data

History:
    With the old windows machines, you could copy or move all the files
in a directory, BUT what it would do is just handle a subset (failing
transparently as windows was designed, you would think you had copied
the entire set, gahh!)
    More recently windows machines would act as if they copied the
entire set of file details to memory (preparing to copy) before
starting, the resultant copy, due to limited available resources, was
painfully SLOW!!!
    Windows 8 has improved this situation a heap, but for a large file
set via a (network drive) its still faster to 7zip the entire file set,
copy the one file, and then unzip at the other end than to copy the lot
on a gigabit network!

Nautilus:
    Is slow to copy large file sets, its way faster to go to a command
prompt and copy. (not as bad as Microsoft used to be but still
ridiculous). 

Summary:
    Care needs to be taken here, an option of copy or move without undo
may be an option, but with media libraries commonly in the 10's of
thousands of items in average households, failing to get the basics
right will lead to a bad impression of Ubuntu in its entirety.    


Paul Daniels