Restore interrupted operations
Posted: 2021-08-02, 22:50 UTC
Situation: i use pcloud service. It creates a remote drive as a hard drive (not map a network drive). It's important. The speed is different and depends on my location. Sometimes i copy thousands of files and it takes time. Sometimes the operation is interrupted (connection lost, laptop was out of battery, tc/windows was crashed) and i experience the big problem to continue operation - i have to start again but from what point? I've no idea where the operation was interrupted. If i have few files it's easy just look at folder of destination. But what should I do if files thousands? I can start to copy folder again in the same place and choose to skip existing files. And the problem is that i use a remote drive. It takes hours to compare files (just names, not content; especially if you do it on FTP).
I suggest two solutions (to invent both would be awesome):
1. Restore the session: TC offers to restore task when opens again (if user dismissed then it can be choosed from a menu);
2. TC add postfix for non completed files as torrent clients do. It helps us to find incompleted file and remove it. Then start to copy folder again with skip existing files option. If we don't know the name of incompleted file we have to choose skip+compare (very slow) or if we just choose to skip we will get a corrupted file. Sometimes you realize it at very important time.
At first I thought just to add postfix to all incompleted remote (ftp, network drive) files. But as i told before pcloud and some other cloud clients mount drives as local. So TC doesn't know about that drives and their speed.
Add in the settings option to add postfix looks inconvenient. But not all users want it. I suggest to add a checkbox (like copy with ntfs rights - tbh I've never used it and not sure it's often used option) to the copy/move dialog to add postfix to incompleted files.
Hope i explained clear why i have difficulties with copyingand interruptions.
I suggest two solutions (to invent both would be awesome):
1. Restore the session: TC offers to restore task when opens again (if user dismissed then it can be choosed from a menu);
2. TC add postfix for non completed files as torrent clients do. It helps us to find incompleted file and remove it. Then start to copy folder again with skip existing files option. If we don't know the name of incompleted file we have to choose skip+compare (very slow) or if we just choose to skip we will get a corrupted file. Sometimes you realize it at very important time.
At first I thought just to add postfix to all incompleted remote (ftp, network drive) files. But as i told before pcloud and some other cloud clients mount drives as local. So TC doesn't know about that drives and their speed.
Add in the settings option to add postfix looks inconvenient. But not all users want it. I suggest to add a checkbox (like copy with ntfs rights - tbh I've never used it and not sure it's often used option) to the copy/move dialog to add postfix to incompleted files.
Hope i explained clear why i have difficulties with copyingand interruptions.