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Show progress when moving a game
Problem description
Right now when moving games to another folder we don't have any feedback besides a message showing: Moving....
That's because we are using the mv.
On Linux and macOS we have the rsync utility that has the --progress flag that shows a percent with the current progress. So we should change the command to use it instead.
On Windows I never heard of a utility like that that comes natively with powershell, for instance, so I don't know how to proceed there.
Feature description
Show progress information like we are doing with installs, so a progress bar + percentage.
Alternatives
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Additional information
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Resources to try on Windows: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2434133/progress-during-large-file-copy-copy-item-write-progress
rsync is not preinstalled on every Linux distro. I would suggest just to loop through the folder and move each file without using a external program.
Hmm, that makes sense. The problem with counting files is that some files are bigger than others so things wont be really precise. But could work on all platforms.
@JakobDev for what I did search it is available on the great majority of distros by default.
So I think we should still use rsync and if the command is not available, we show a warning and use mv instead. I think that's the best approach.
just wondering, is there a reason we use move directly and not legendary's move command? (haven't tried moving a game with either heroic or legendary to compare though, maybe legendary just uses mv)
Two reasons: won't work for GOG and don't support moving across devices.