Nautilus - bug or feature

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

On 5/1/06, Scott <listboi at angrykeyboarder.com> wrote:
> Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> > On 4/15/06, Ken Stevens <kens7601 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I am not sure whether I should submit a bug report on this or not. Last
> >> night I tried, using Nautilus to copy some files from a 10 Gig partition
> >> to a 25 gig partition. I selected all the files and hit copy. I than
> >> tried to paste them to the 25 gig partition. I received a "Not enough
> >> space message"
> >>
> >> Then I tried from a terminal session cp -v * <25 Gig Partition>
> >>
> >> It worked fine.
> >>
> >> So, is this a bug with Nautilus?
> >>
> >
> > Was there enough space in the 25 gig partition?
> > If there was, then it's surely a bug.
> > I myself hope there was an option to 'continue anyway' after that
> > message of 'not enough space', and would like to file a wishlist bug.
> >
>
> I've never had much luck transferring massive amounts of files (say over
> 5 GB) in Nautilus (or in KDE's Konqueror).  I don't know why, but I
> guess X in general seems to balk at it.  So I've pretty much resorted to
> doing it in a terminal in those instances.
>

I, on the other hand, regularly manage to transfer over several gigs
(often thousands of files).