Nautilus hangs when accessing CIFS share

[Karl Auer]

On Fri, 2016-12-23 at 14:28 -0800, rikona wrote:
> Also, most of the things are not exactly repeated but vary a lot
> depending on the particular task. Sometimes I move 2 files, sometimes
> 5000 files, in perhaps 10 groups. Wouldn't be easy to type the names
> of 5000 out of 25,000 files in a dir. But there ARE likely a number
> of things that WOULD be effective. Gotta do some more homework...

You don't need to type the names unless all else has failed. You can do
things like process all files with the same prefix or suffix ("move all
files with names beginning with Q", "move all files ending in '.mp3'").
With not much more effort you can use file "magic numbers" or even the
file content to categorise them ("move all files containing the word
'rikona'"). Or combine all of the above.

Sometimes simple workflow changes can help - things like  careful
selection of names, or categorising into separate directories as you
accumulate the files, then you can just move "everything from
yesterday", or "everything from that source", regardless of the
filename. Even if you have (say) five categories to move, it's a lot
less than 5000 files.

The advantage of scripts over a GUI is that it does not require you
fallible mousing to work, it is 100% repeatable, and it is much, MUCH
faster. The downside is the time needed for set-up and **testing**.

If you accurately describe your requirement, someone on this list is
bound to see it as a challenge :-)

Regards, K.

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