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Pause / Resume File Copy

Submitted by apulaski on January 1, 2009 to Annoyance

When copying large files there is no ability to pause or resume a job. Also, in the event of some sort of copy failure (power is lost to an external USB drive, or the computer goes to sleep) no resume functionality is available.

Add the ability to pause a file copy as well as resume a failed file copy to finder.

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Discussion (2 comments)

rattatosk wrote on March 18, 2009, 6:57pm

I second this. I don't get somehting that easy is not added.
Basically you can already do this with command line commands (terminal) as rsyn or curl.
But an integrated GUI solution would be a real life saver for me.

linuxforever wrote on May 25, 2009, 9:18pm

Additionally, the restart could be delayed by a timer or signal sent from the OS or a qualifying application (e.g. internet download manager using the whole network bandwidth if it is a copy process over the network...). Even better would be a customizable Quality of Service routine managing the storage bandwidth (e.g. to give priority to another computer accessing the very same storage device through the network connection).

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