On Thursday 27 August 2009 01:09:41 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > My main use of Dolphin is to copy bunches of files to removable devices > such as pendrives. Often the files will come from different parts of the > filesystem and hence can't be selected all at once for drag-and-drop. > Furthermore, the copy itself is fairly slow (large files and USB > devices), but if I start several copies in parallel the process becomes > even slower. I haven't measured it but it definitely looks much slower > than copying the same set of files one after the other, which could well > be a bug but that's another matter. > > One way to make all this a bit easier would be to create a Staging > directory and link the candidate files into it, then copy them all in > one swell foop and remove them when done, but there doesn't seem to be a > way to do this in Dolphin. Drag-and-drop offers a menu of options: Copy, > Move or Link, but the Link is a symbolic link. Thus the linking phase > works fine, but on copying the Staging directory Dolphin simply copies > the links and not the targets, which is useless (and doesn't even work > when the destination doesn't support symlimks). > > Since all the candidate files are on the same filesystem, hard links > would solve the problem, but there doesn't appear to be a way of > creating them from Dolphin (and the online Help says *nothing* about the > pop-up menu on right-click, such as whether it's configurable). > If I've understood you correctly, I don't see the advantage of linking them that way. Make a directory ~/Temp and in dolphin drag that directory into the Places menu. Pull copies of everything you are going to backup into that directory - at least as fast as linking them. Then when you are finished, start the backup to removable devices and finally empty the ~/Temp directory. You can, of course, split the dolphin screen, but doing it using the Places panel lets you see more of your directories at once. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20090827/22dc1f08/attachment.bin
