[Thunar-dev] why move takes so long

[hernux]

You may be right, this way may be safer, but the cost is too high.. 
whenever I need to move a big file, and I see the time it will take to 
thunar to move it, I just cancel it and make an mv command.. so, the 
safe metodo is thrown away.

In the other hand, I can't find any reason why cp would be safer than 
mv... they work just the same.. the only difference is that mv is not 
really coping, and that de original file is not anymore at the end... 
so.. if you want to avoid overriding, in both cases you need the -i 
param... and you can always check the existence of files to be 
overwritten before calling mv.

I haven't seen the code, but I guess that he is not calling system cp/mv 
commands.. so, implementation may be different from what I said before.. 
but any case.. I think that if the problem with move is the safety, then 
the rename function should be changed, cause, after all, renaming and 
moving are the same..  :-)

Any way, Benedikt already said that "this will be fixed before the 
release", so, I think that he is saying that its not a feature to copy 
instead of moving.

cheers,
Hernán



Stavros Giannouris wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:43:52 -0300
> hernux <hernux at etherac.com.ar> 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.
>>
>>     
> I was wondering about that too, someday, but then I realised that plain
> ol' 'mv' command does virtually no sanity checks before it moves the
> file.
> It is so easy to aim at your foot and pull the trigger when
> executing /bin/mv , that a completely different implementation ought to
> be made in a desktop file manager.
>
> I don't know if this is the best, but it is surely better if you take
> the safety of your data into account :-)
>
> Greets,
>   
>> thanx,
>> Hernux
>>     
>
> PS: I am not Benny, of course and all the above may just be a pile of
> bs. You are bewarned!
>   
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