[Thunar-dev] why move takes so long

[Benedikt Meurer]

hernux wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> moving a file from one folder to another, takes too much time, it seems 
> that thunar is coping the file instead of just renaming it.  Moving a 
> 2GB file with mv command takes just one second and fifteen minutes in 
> thunar.

Yep, right now, Thunar always copies the file(s) first and deletes them 
afterwards when performing a move operation. That will be fixed before 
the release.

> thanx,
> Hernux

Benedikt
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