J
just bob
It's been about 18 days since I've complained about this so here I go again
with a similar but different explanation:
The one thing that really bothers me, which really makes Vista unusable for
my production work the file management, and this "Calculating Time
Remaining" when you try to copy or move files.
My problem is, when I drag and drop to move a folder of 20GB of photos to a
different subfolder on my C drive of my Dell D820 laptop running Vista
Ultimate, there is a dialog box which says "Calculating time remaining". And
it stays there for a LONG time.
When I try moving around folders of an even larger size, forget it. Send
everyone on a break because we're not getting any work done for a while.
The other thing is the visual you get when you drag and drop folders.
I'm used to the XP Explorer when you can drag a folder from the right pane
and drop it on a folder in the left pane. While this still works, the
animated icon covers up the folders you are trying to drop on. Now, there is
this little blue arrow, which (hopefully) appears to tell you which folder
you are dropping on, but the precision is so poor because it doesn't really
point to the folder that on more than one occasional I've put the files in
the wrong folder. And then guess what happens: Yep! I've got to wait for
the bloody "Calculation time..." message to go away before I can even begin
to fix the problem, which of course it has to Calculate all over again.
I'm trying to stick with Vista but for my last assignment, where I shot as
much as 20GB of RAW photos in day three days and I had to prepare a
compilation at the end of the event, I put the XP hard drive back in my
laptop after three wasted hours on the first day because I just couldn't
stand the frustration of managing files in Vista.
I'll post again in another 15 days until this is fixed...
with a similar but different explanation:
The one thing that really bothers me, which really makes Vista unusable for
my production work the file management, and this "Calculating Time
Remaining" when you try to copy or move files.
My problem is, when I drag and drop to move a folder of 20GB of photos to a
different subfolder on my C drive of my Dell D820 laptop running Vista
Ultimate, there is a dialog box which says "Calculating time remaining". And
it stays there for a LONG time.
When I try moving around folders of an even larger size, forget it. Send
everyone on a break because we're not getting any work done for a while.
The other thing is the visual you get when you drag and drop folders.
I'm used to the XP Explorer when you can drag a folder from the right pane
and drop it on a folder in the left pane. While this still works, the
animated icon covers up the folders you are trying to drop on. Now, there is
this little blue arrow, which (hopefully) appears to tell you which folder
you are dropping on, but the precision is so poor because it doesn't really
point to the folder that on more than one occasional I've put the files in
the wrong folder. And then guess what happens: Yep! I've got to wait for
the bloody "Calculation time..." message to go away before I can even begin
to fix the problem, which of course it has to Calculate all over again.
I'm trying to stick with Vista but for my last assignment, where I shot as
much as 20GB of RAW photos in day three days and I had to prepare a
compilation at the end of the event, I put the XP hard drive back in my
laptop after three wasted hours on the first day because I just couldn't
stand the frustration of managing files in Vista.
I'll post again in another 15 days until this is fixed...