From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "mateusz.fiolka" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Dired copying file / emacs blocking Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:29:09 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <7dcdf879-3ae6-4750-abe7-64d89c0dc721@v15g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> References: <88d08b90-494e-42d8-bc44-92d3c59ae695@e5g2000vbe.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235770918 22330 80.91.229.12 (27 Feb 2009 21:41:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:41:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 27 22:43:14 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LdAU5-00014W-Fg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:43:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42528 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LdASk-0005x8-8z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:41:42 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!v15g2000yqn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.3.94.194 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1235770149 13023 127.0.0.1 (27 Feb 2009 21:29:09 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:29:09 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v15g2000yqn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=83.3.94.194; posting-account=kym-1QoAAAClTHPHBmFGfh1FGi_gkcll User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Opera/9.63 (X11; Linux i686; U; pl) Presto/2.1.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167149 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:62451 Archived-At: On 27 Lut, 12:18, Michael Heerdegen wrote: > "mateusz.fiolka" writes: > > Hi, > > > I'm starting to do all my file management tasks in Dired. However > > yesterday I faced a problem I can't find solution for on the internet. > > When I copy a large file (let's say a 700MB movie) Emacs totally > > blocks. I understand it is a normal thing as it is only one process > > and all operations are synchronous. Is there any way to do it as an > > external operation? I think that something like copy queue would be > > useful (like in total commander on windows). Are all Dired users just > > waiting for their files to copy? > > > Thanks, > > Mateusz F. > > I use dired-do-shell-command (bound to !) in such cases. This is also > a better solution when deleting recursively large directory trees. Thanks Michael, Just for the record: I have done some research and found out that Sunrise Commander does copy in the background. It also has AVFS support for archives and remote filesystems. Currently I don't have any experience with it, but it certainly looks very good and I'm going to fiddle a little with it. Regards, Mateusz