Just found reference to this via duck duck go on android. As a system administrator I have to say can handle a LARGE amount for files in copy and move operations. By large I mean >20K files or >5GB of data
History: With the old windows machines, you could copy or move all the files in a directory, BUT what it would do is just handle a subset (failing transparently as windows was designed, you would think you had copied the entire set, gahh!) More recently windows machines would act as if they copied the entire set of file details to memory (preparing to copy) before starting, the resultant copy, due to limited available resources, was painfully SLOW!!! Windows 8 has improved this situation a heap, but for a large file set via a (network drive) its still faster to 7zip the entire file set, copy the one file, and then unzip at the other end than to copy the lot on a gigabit network! Nautilus: Is slow to copy large file sets, its way faster to go to a command prompt and copy. (not as bad as Microsoft used to be but still ridiculous). Summary: Care needs to be taken here, an option of copy or move without undo may be an option, but with media libraries commonly in the 10's of thousands of items in average households, failing to get the basics right will lead to a bad impression of Ubuntu in its entirety. Paul Daniels -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop