Comments on: A Proposal to OS Makers

By: Kekrops

Kekrops — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:37:33 +0000

Total Commander already has this Queuing feature+ you can limit the copying speed during the process or add/remove items to the queue while its running the process. Stop being a MacFag. Also linux has the same thing in Gnome Commander.

By: Ubuntu

Ubuntu — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:19:32 +0000

Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) alpha 4 has this feature:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080202-first-look-ubuntu-8-04-hardy-heron-alpha-4.html

By: Joey

Joey — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 04:56:06 +0000

There is a free one called BatchTransfer. It looks less feature rich than TeraCopy, but doesn’t cost money. http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/BatchTransfer/batchtransfer.html

By: Josh Davis

Josh Davis — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:57:10 +0000

Upgrade your RAM.

By: Nat

Nat — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:50:37 +0000

Linux: use the CFQ IO scheduler

Use ‘batch’ (the ‘atd’ daemon must be active)
echo cp FileName Destination | batch

There is a more complete and tech discussion about it, check my website

By: IdealChain

IdealChain — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:50:20 +0000

For Windows, I would also suggest CopyHandler. (http://www.copyhandler.com/en/manual/introduction-to-copy-handler-6.html)

It can replace the standard windows copy dialog and it has a lot of handy features, including a copy queue. So you can add your copy jobs normally with explorer without having to get used to a new copy program.

By: Technology Blog

Technology Blog — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:23:34 +0000

those were the times…

By: David Mulder

David Mulder — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:02:25 +0000

Although I don’t remember which linux distro was doing this, I once saw a distro do this… I was first irritated as it messed up my workspaces…

By: Michael R. Head

Michael R. Head — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:15:53 +0000

Be was pwned by Steve Jobs when Apple chose him and NeXT instead of BeOS for the future of Mac OS

By: kometbomb

kometbomb — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:21:51 +0000

I coded something like this in a few moments. Basically, it’s a replacement for the copy command but it checks if there are running instances of it and if yes, it sends the new job to it. It isn’t very smart: when copying stuff from c: to d: and from e: to x: it still queues the other job.

The only thing stopping me from adding it as a menu option (in Windows) is that I don’t use Visual Studio so I can’t produce compatible dlls :(

But yes, I agree. The bar for OS developers is way too low on simple stuff like this (that always is available in some other software, such as TC). It’s 2007, come on.