Remaining time calculation a bit exaggerated?

Hi!

I did copy (drag&drop) about 3 thousands files, located on a network share, to an existing .7z file (~88 mb, on same network share) and got some exaggerated time estimations for the whole process.

Note: I do not complain about the slow speed over LAN, but the calculation of the remaining time is, IMO, a bit impressive :wink:

Please see the screenshots below.




OK, the whole process latest about 48 minutes but when the progress reached 99% the process finished within some seconds. As you might see in the last screenshot above, the information still says 922 hours remaining :scream:

Don't know if there is same space for improvements?

Is it reproducable or a one-off?

Not yet, I'm currently copying another 1.600 files to the very same .7z file and get this progress window.

No remaining time information until now. Not sure when this time gets visible, though.

Is size calculation turned on in the File Operations preferences?

Any option with this name has not changed between my initial posting and the latest screenshot. IN fact I did not change anything in prefs the last days or so.

Sorry for my ignorance, however, I did not find any option with "size calulation" in preferences. Nothing below "Copying Files" or in "Progress Indicators" with name "size calulation"

A setting for folder size is available Prefs PAGE="foldersizes" but not enabled. Although I've Everything installed and running but not for the source and destination folder I'm currently copying from and to.

the display of the diagram could be the cause.
Depending on what you do where, a different result is obtained
try switching it off.

It's under Preferences / File Operations / Progress Indicators / Counting Files.

If the "Use Everything to count files where possible" option is on, that might also cause some anomalies if Everything's index is inaccurate. Telling Everything to rebuild the index or turning that off in Opus may help if that's the case. (Usually it's fine, though, and I keep it on here.)

Thanks for this screenshot! My preferences are identical.

Eveything does currently not index those files from my initial posting above.
This would not make sense here because the files are constantly changing and in some manner they are only temporary.

Hence, I will simply ignore the behaviour of DO in this case :smile: