Thanks for the suggestions everyone. Ken Schneider wrote:
Philippe Landau pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2008-04-14 at 14:05 +0200, Philippe Landau wrote:
In the Linux GUI, lack of options during copy and move made me lose countless hours. Which GUI? There are many. OpenSuse 10.3 KDE 3.5
When there are problems, there is no way to pause and resume later, no way to see a list of problems, for example the files skipped during auto-skip, and when aborted, the complete hierarchy of directories are found in the target place, many empty depending on when the operation was halted. This makes resuming the task unnecessarily difficult. Don't use a GUI. Use rsync. Interesting. Simple users still stuck then. No. Have a look at GAdmin-Rsync and Grsync which are GUI frontends to rsync. rsync had similar problems when i reported them here a few months ago. thanks for the pointers.
now a copy operation just said: "process died unexpectedly" and offered me the possibility to cancel or skip :-) upon skipping, the copy continued, but what was left out was never even displayed. Of course, the managers and devs don't care, and if i file a bug report, they either send me to the next one who doesn't care, or they say it's a feature. Carlos E. R. wrote:
I prefer midnight commander, while not strictly "gui" it is a very good program. Thunar could be another possibility. Krusader works well too. Is copy improved in those ? No program is perfect on all respects. Try! Thanks for your help and experience, Carlos.
Copy is super basic stuff on computers. I don't live for the OS, i expect the OS to just facilitate my life. Being able to copy stuff easily without having to try various applications to do the job. Another built-in backup application, ark, works 24 hours without any indication of progress when tar -czvf sampledir.tgz sampledir/ finishes the same job in 40 minutes. Kind regards Philippe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org