On 11/28/2016 03:22 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Sun, 27 Nov 2016 20:23:31 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> An SSD drive might not have this problem, but a spinning disk definitely
> will. You should never try running multiple copies on the same disk if
> you want it to finish in a reasonable time. With one copy, you can do
> long contiguous reads and writes, but if you have multiple copies
> happening, the read and write head will be bouncing all over the disk.
And what does that have to do with the progress window issue?
Sorry for taking the thread off-track. I had accidentally deleted the
original message and thought there was something about multiple copies
taking a long time as well.
I agree with you that the progress info window is not so useful and
often seems somewhat broken.