Nautilus - bug or feature

[Robert Spanjaard]

On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 23:43:13 -0700, Scott wrote:

>> 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 didn't have any problems when converting my ntfs-partitions to ext3,
which required copying 160 GB (120000 files) in two sessions.
Nautilus is quite slow on large directories, but it never failed me.

And a small advice: If you have a single large directory, and want to
copy/move/delete the files in it, the operation will be a LOT faster if
you leave the dir after giving the command. Don't keep its contents
visible in Nautilus.

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