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On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 08:46:11 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Windows Vist (sic) - File Copying - Progress Bar
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> | The progress bar is yet to show the actual progress as it has almost
> | transfered 60% of data.
Many moons ago, I worked with an installer package which had a really bad
fault; it calculated percentage complete (and updated status) based on the
number of files done out of the file set. This meant if you had, say, one
file of 100MB and 9 of 1Kb, it would take ages to reach "10%" - i.e.
completing the first file - then zip up to completion in jig time.
Looks like they may have done the same thing here. Silly, as there are,
in fact, better ways to do it. That said, one thing that's always bugged
me about most GUI-based file managers is that in order to be "helpful" -
give you an estimate of how much they've completed, say - they start by
scanning the entire working set of files to be copied or moved... yet they
almost universally fail to subsequently use this for even something as
basic as determining if there's enough space in the destination.
Windows is *not* unique in this particular form of silliness.
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