Anyone tried moving folders to the same drive?

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Has anyone tried moving folders to the same drive in Vista RTM? I get the
"Calculating time remaining" dialog box just like the one you get while
copying files. Even though the folder has long been moved, the dialog box
stays there for quite some time.

Is this a bug or what?

Thanks.
 
Poh said:
Has anyone tried moving folders to the same drive in Vista RTM? I get
the "Calculating time remaining" dialog box just like the one you get
while copying files. Even though the folder has long been moved, the
dialog box stays there for quite some time.

Is this a bug or what?
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Just a poorly written operating system.
 
Copying files also seems to show some problem. Clicking the Detail button,
Vista seems to try to calculate the amount of time needed to copy the files
with 0kb/s transfer rate until the copying process complete. This happens
when copying files between drives. But if copying between network,
everything seems to work fine.

Anyone? Please confirm.

Thanks.
 
The moving files box can, at times stay up way too long. I've noticed the
same thing and I don't know when it does why it does.

CH
 
Poh said:
Copying files also seems to show some problem. Clicking the Detail
button, Vista seems to try to calculate the amount of time needed to
copy the files with 0kb/s transfer rate until the copying process
complete. This happens when copying files between drives. But if
copying between network, everything seems to work fine.

Anyone? Please confirm.
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I've seen this for copying files. I wasn't being entirely flippant with my
earlier comment; something very disturbing has happened to how explorer
handles files.

The idea you mention of this happening for MOVING files, though, is
especially disturbing. Moving files is a very different operation from
copying them in Windows, and you really shouldn't see a dialogue like this
appear at all because the changes needed to be made to the files to
represent a move are absolutely trivial compared to the amount of work
required to copy a file.
 
Robert Moir said:
I've seen this for copying files. I wasn't being entirely flippant with my
earlier comment; something very disturbing has happened to how explorer
handles files.
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I have to agree. This is the only thing about Vista which pisses me off.
To copy a single file takes more than double the amount of time than it does
on XP. Why the hell does it want to calculate the time to copy before
copying? Just copy the damned thing. lol
 
Beck said:
I have to agree. This is the only thing about Vista which pisses me off.
To copy a single file takes more than double the amount of time than it does
on XP. Why the hell does it want to calculate the time to copy before
copying? Just copy the damned thing. lol
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I agree. I have experienced the problem numerous times. Copying and
moving files. Folder to folder, drive to drive, and across my network- it all
takes longer with Vista than XP.


-Michael
 
Chad Harris said:
The moving files box can, at times stay up way too long. I've noticed the
same thing and I don't know when it does why it does.
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Yes. I was wondering about this just today as well. Even deleting a folder
full of files takes ages. What's going on? Please investigate this
phenomena, Chad. Get on the case.

ss.
 
Beck said:
I have to agree. This is the only thing about Vista which pisses me
off. To copy a single file takes more than double the amount of time
than it does on XP. Why the hell does it want to calculate the time
to copy before copying? Just copy the damned thing. lol
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I don't mind the display it puts up as much as how long it takes. You would
hope (but with Vista I guess you can't be certain) that the file copy
operation proceeds at best speed and isn't kept waiting by the explorer
animation... but yeah the silly screen is really annoying when you're
waiting for an operation to complete that ought to be virtually
instantaneous.

Either way, as we've been saying, something is very wrong with how the
Explorer shell in Vista handles simple file operations. XP wasn't anything
like this bad.
 
Yes. This is not good . . .

Synapse said:
Yes. I was wondering about this just today as well. Even deleting a
folder full of files takes ages. What's going on? Please investigate
this phenomena, Chad. Get on the case.

ss.
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I wonder if this has anything to do with indexing files.
If you move, you have to update the index, unlike in XP where there is no
indexing.
 
Poh said:
Has anyone tried moving folders to the same drive in Vista RTM? I get the
"Calculating time remaining" dialog box just like the one you get while
copying files. Even though the folder has long been moved, the dialog box
stays there for quite some time.
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Here too, especially when moving folders within a shared network
folder. The more files in the folder, the longer it remains.

It's as if all progress bar updates (one per file) are delayed until
after everything has been moved, and then they are all executed in
rapid succesion as fast as the display (or the system) can handle the
updates.
 
Same problem here. Try deleting files in temp. Starts out saying 40
seconds, after 1 file is deleted in 5 minutes, goes to 9-10 hours, by the
time 4 files are deleted in 20 minutes shows hundreds of hours remaining and
time to stop and live with a large temp file.
 
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