Why is Windows so bad at basic file operations? Isn't this supposed to be a Disk Operating System? Copying files is slow and unpredictable. Canceling file copies are bizarrely slow. If a file is added to a directory, I have to manually refresh for Windows Explorer to notice.
There is, in my downloads folder, a file named "2019-07-02 gutenberg.org.tar.part". I don't remember downloading this. Windows claims it to be several hundred gigabytes larger than my hard drive.
@mcc and it's getting worse. When the company I work at switched from Windows 10 to 11, I noticed Windows Explorer got much more prone to freezing, and many operations are much slower
MTP, which appears to be the only away to USB-copy files off my phone without rooting it, is so slow I'm convinced it will just never finish. Currently looking into network-based backup utilities because Microsoft apparently can't handle "copy a file over usb"
@mcc Wasnt this some stupid copyright conflict? Early android had native usb mass storage and i remeber there was a big thing about it abd it got removed and replace with mtp.
@mcc I once decided to just dig into the underlying APIs to write my own tool to copy files off my phone, and it just made me angry. It's terrible nonsense.
I gave up and instead use syncthing. Copying files over usb is just too hard
@foone This is encouraging to know because I'm currently setting up SyncThing.
On a cursory search I found lots of people going "it's easy! you just set up an rsync server on your phone! download [link to one of 3 rsync server apps which apparently existed in 2012 but are no longer on the Play store]
@the_arto@roytoo@mcc yeah they used to. we switched to MTP to solve some problems like users yanking the USB cable out without unmounting, and microsoft refusing to implement an ext3 driver
@the_arto@roytoo@foone Well, now they mount as MTP volumes. Which Teracopy is not compatible with. And Windows is, tonight, interacting with slower than I've ever seen it do.
@mcc fair. Their grumbles may have been due to being annoying to implement rather than fundamentally janky but it's been the better part of 20 years since that was going on.
It feels like regular file transfer is being slowly buried in favor of various flavors of "cloud"
@mcc how else would you actually do this? I'm on Linux and I gave up on MTP, but adb pull is quite hard to use (have to know the path to my actual user storage, use the command line, etc...).
This said Syncthing is at least two orders of magnitude faster than Windows MTP copy, and has the advantage that without interrupting the transfer I can unplug from the computer and go into my bedroom and read Alastair Reynolds ebooks
@mcc I've been running SyncThing on everything (including phone) for years and it's never failed me. It just silently sits there doing its thing. I've reached the point where I will drop something in a synced directory on the PC and walk away with my phone trusting that it's there without needing to check.
@DJTentMode@CliftonR@mcc Heh - I have liked pretty much all his books, even if some of them are kinda tough. Don't remember him doing humour/satire before - but it's good! One more to add to the list!
@TomF@DJTentMode@CliftonR I run hot and cold on him. I feel like he has the problem some hard sci fi authors have of like, just kind of only sometimes bothering to include character writing. When he's good though he's really good
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