If I use robust transfer to move some files, the whole program freezes for ~30 seconds after transferring each file. The file is being moved from one network share to another.
"This file is too slow to copy Do you want to skip it?" appears for each file.
robust transfer freezes after transferring file
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Re: robust transfer freezes after transferring file
this message means that your network is very slow. Is it really that slow? What happens if you just drag-drop the file to the same destination?
it could also be some AV setting that interferes for your "protection"
it could also be some AV setting that interferes for your "protection"
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Re: robust transfer freezes after transferring file
The network is ok. The file is being transferred between two smb network shares and no data is being transferred on the network (https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Server-Side_Copy), but yet, after one file is transferred xplorer2 freezes for some time (sometimes upto 3 minutes).
Please see attached screenshot, the transfer steadily reaches 84% in about 20seconds, and then just freezes for about 3 minutes (this happens at the end of one file transfer and the beginning of the next).
https://imgur.com/a/OrJfL1r
Please see attached screenshot, the transfer steadily reaches 84% in about 20seconds, and then just freezes for about 3 minutes (this happens at the end of one file transfer and the beginning of the next).
https://imgur.com/a/OrJfL1r
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Re: robust transfer freezes after transferring file
what happens if you drag=drop the same file to the same destination folder?
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Re: robust transfer freezes after transferring file
drag and drop is working fine (except the progress bar windows doesn't appear after the first transfer due to the windows 11 bug).
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Re: robust transfer freezes after transferring file
if your network is ok, it could be your antivirus
are your files really big? (lots of GB). Try TOOLS > ADVANCED OTPIONS menu and search for "huge file limit", and try to reduce it in case it makes a difference
are your files really big? (lots of GB). Try TOOLS > ADVANCED OTPIONS menu and search for "huge file limit", and try to reduce it in case it makes a difference
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Re: robust transfer freezes after transferring file
yes, happens when moving large files.
Have set "Huge file search limit (MB)" and "Huge file preview limit (MB)" to 50MB and "Huge file limit (MB)" to 0 which so far seems to have fixed the problem.
Have set "Huge file search limit (MB)" and "Huge file preview limit (MB)" to 50MB and "Huge file limit (MB)" to 0 which so far seems to have fixed the problem.
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Re: robust transfer freezes after transferring file
funny, "huge file (copy) limit" once upon a time was introduced to fight another similar bug,,,, now you have to remove it to sort out another!
I had a similar support ticket for NAS a couple of days ago, and there the culprit was IPv6 addresses (that's what the guy said anyway)
I had a similar support ticket for NAS a couple of days ago, and there the culprit was IPv6 addresses (that's what the guy said anyway)