personnally, I could not reproduce this using a small ipod (1g) transferring a 380 mb file, nor with a conventional usb hard drive (transferring 1.4 gb in 3 files), using nautilus+gvfs.
personnally, I could not reproduce this using a small ipod (1g) transferring a 380 mb file, nor with a conventional usb hard drive (transferring 1.4 gb in 3 files), using nautilus+gvfs.