Re: mc Digest, Vol 146, Issue 10

["Yury V. Zaytsev" <yury shurup com>]

On Fri, 14 Oct 2016, Rikishi 42 wrote:

> - copies are made in the disk order, instead of taking the sort order
>   that is chosen for the display

This could be an interesting feature to implement: if I remember 
correctly, Volkov Commander did that, and on top, it removed the selection 
dynamically from the files already copied, so you could literally see how 
your files float from one directory to another.

> - when some of the files are allready on destination, and one choses to
>   skip, their number and volume should be substracted from the total
>   count/size. In that way the estimates mean something.

I'm not sure why do you think it would mean something, I believe exactly 
the opposite.

> - the move function still copies all, before removing the files, meaning
>   that we gain nothing in volume until all has been copied
> - the move function doesn't give an estimate during it's work

This is a safety feature introduced by design to make sure that moves are 
atomic in a sense that nothing is removed before the copy part succeeded.

> I think some of these bugs might have been removed from the latest mc, 
> but I can't find a recent update for Linux Mint. How do you expect 
> feedback from people, if most of them can't get recent releases?

There are unofficial Mint-compatible binaries provided on the Binaries 
page, you just have to figure which Ubuntu / Debian stream corresponds to 
your Mint release.

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Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev