Estimated Transfer Time Is No More In Windows 8

MrSeb writes "Ahh, the Windows Explorer progress dialog. For years it has been struggling to figure out how to calculate how long our copy and delete operations would take, sliding the progress bar back and forth in a seemingly random, haphazard way, the laws of time all but ceasing to exist — five seconds remaining one moment and 13 minutes the next. That's (almost) all going to change, with the arrival of a greatly improved file management experience in Windows 8. Copy, move, delete, rename, and conflict resolution are all being overhauled and it's about time!"

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Teracopy

[mehrotra.akash]

Perhaps they should just buy teracopy

Terrible summary & headline

[Godai]

First, I've never seen the progress bar in a Windows file transfer progress bar slide 'back and forth in a seemingly random, haphazard way'. I've seen progress bars that do that, and but I've never seen a Windows file transfer dialog do that. The estimation can jump around like crazy at times, but the progress bar was always fine (since, I assume, it's simply based on # of files completed). Maybe Windows 98 did that? I don't remember it doing that, but its been a while. Certain XP, Vista & Windows 7 don't.

Second, if you RTFA the estimated transfer time is currently still there; its just downplayed.

Re:Obligatory XKCD

[idontgno]

This is Slashdot. Why would TFA have given anyone any idea about anything? That would have required reading it, and that never happens. Ever.