keep copying the not-problematic items when encountering an error during a copy of multiple files

[Ronan Jouchet]

Hello,

When copying several files, an error may occur (unreadable file, trying to copy a >2GB file on a FAT partition, ...). In this case, the current behaviour is to interrupt the copy and let the user choose what to do (skip copy of the problematic file, retry, cancel all ...).

What if the copy of the other items kept going on in background? This way it would avoid the Murphy-esque situation where I copy Gigs and come back hours after with only 2% completed because of an error in one of the first files.
It seems in line with some others recent gvfs improvements (make file operations more natural and intelligent).

Is somebody aware of an upstream dev for this? Should I file something in GNOME Bugzilla?

Thanks for your comments,
Ronan

-- Tech details
Ubuntu Intrepid Alpha 6, up2date 2008/09/29
gvfs 1.0.1-0ubuntu1

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the request is an upstream one and should rather be sent on bugzilla.gnome.org, note that nautilus uses gvfs now