No Global progress bar when moving files.

[M76]

Hi

I've upgraded to 7.02 and I have no global progress bar when I'm moving files


I don't know if it's normal behavior that there is no global progress bar when moving within the same drive. Because then it's possible that's what confuses TC that while the source and a destination is within the same drive letter, they're actaually on different physical drives. eg: the router402 directory is linked to another drive. The calculate sizes before copying option is of course enabled.

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You ask me to provide a screenshot then tell me I cannot do it, WTF.

[StatusQuo]

Confirmed, Win2k SP4, TC 7.02.

I created a Junction in D:, pointing to another physical disk Y: (D:\router402 = Y:\router402).
So when moving D:\*.* to D:\router402, TC obviously thinks it is moving withing the same drive (which would be a simple rename), but actually has to move the file contents to another physical drive.

Is this by design?

[ghisler(Author)]

Yes, this is normal - TC cannot know in this case that it has to copy+delete the files instead of moving them directly.

[roentgen]

TC cannot know in this case that it has to copy+delete the files instead of moving them directly.

This reminds me of the "great" Norton Speed Disk. While all other defragmenters knew that there's a mounted partition in there, only Speed Disk failed to see it. Well... FAT32 FTW .

[ghisler(Author)]

It's not as easy as you may think, e.g. if one of the copied subdirectories (or a subdirectory of them) is a hard link...

[M76]

The link appers differently in tc, so it can and does differentiate it from convenctional directories, doesn't it? Then why not use this information when moving?