From kfm-devel  Mon Jul 31 18:44:45 2000
From: David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:44:45 +0000
To: kfm-devel
Subject: Bug#6939: Copy progressbar shows wrong progress
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kfm-devel&m=96507017703916

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Michael Haeckel wrote :
>David Faure wrote:
>> It is supposed to show the complete progress indeed.
>> But if you were downloading files using symbolic links to them (was that
>> the case ?) then this behaviour happens indeed, due to a limitation of the
>> FTP protocol (getting the size of the file that is pointed to is quite an
>> expensive operation, and I haven't resolved myself to let it do that, just
>> to get a correct total size....).
>> Was this the case ? (symlinks) ?
>
>- I was not downloading but uploading.
>- I didn't use symbolic links.
>The files were all on my local hard disc and there it should be no problem
> to get the complete size I think.
>
>I did some test uploading on my local machine: When I take the complete
>directory and move it to the other Konqueror window, the complete size is
>displayed correct, but when I change into the directory, select all files
> and move them to the other window the size is displayed wrong.

Ah I know why. Moving N items is implemented as N different operations,
unrelated one with the other. Whereas moving one directory is one single operation.
Well spotted.

>I also found that this problem is not ftp specific. It is the same with
>copying of local files.

Indeed.

I'll have a look at this... not easy to change now, though.

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