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Set location... - file dialog is extremely unfriendly towards suspended (spun-down) drives

Open 2peer opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

Suggestion

Currently the "Set location..." context menu invokes a custom "file dialog"/tree view that basically results in spinning-up all the drives in the system. That means:

  • It can take a really long time to show the dialog (drives are typically spun-up sequentially)
  • Increased power use
  • Increased wear on the drives (more spin-up / spin-down cycles)
  • Increased noise produced by the system

It would be really nice to have an alternative to this dialog to be able to move the downloads .

A simple text field to enter a full path would be sufficient. A tab-completion could be added later to improve UX (if desired). Could be either an override in the settings or a separate option in the context menu.

Use case

System with a lot of (mechanical) drives. Most of them spun-down most of the time

Extra info/examples/attachments

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2peer avatar Jun 03 '24 12:06 2peer

Btw, WebUI has such location dialog right now. A simple path string.

HanabishiRecca avatar Jun 05 '24 20:06 HanabishiRecca

Btw, WebUI has such location dialog right now. A simple path string.

Thanks for the tip.

On the other hand, this UI seems to completely lack any validation:

  1. If you forget/accidentally delete the leading / it will happily move the files to your "Downloads" folder (might be intended behavior, but at least a warning would be nice - see 2.)

  2. It doesn't seem to validate if there is enough space left in the destination before beginning the move

2peer avatar Jun 20 '24 09:06 2peer

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xavier2k6 avatar May 25 '25 13:05 xavier2k6