On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 08:56:42 -0600, Bob Gustafson <bobgus at rcn.com> wrote: > Perhaps some sort of heuristic - like disk size(s) divided by 'average' > file size. Also don't know the value of one asterisk - is it 100 files? I believe it is 100 files. So if you know how many files on on your system you can estimate when it will complete.