Get rid of the "Pause Processing" dialogue.

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Evolve
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Get rid of the "Pause Processing" dialogue.

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When I press "pause" while copying files, a message "Pause Processing" appears

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1. It is misleading, it asks you if you want to pause or not, but it has already paused during this dialogue.
2. I want to believe that 90% of users know what "pause" means and don't need that dialogue.
3. 9% who don't know can figure this out by observing the progress bar and numbers stop changing and the "Pause" button changing to "Resume".

Suggestion:
Get rid of the "Pause Processing" dialogue.
Or at least add a checkbox: "don't show this again".
PS: or just add that line of text instruction "Note that after 'Pause' 'Resume' will restart processing the current file" into the custom copy window itself instead of spawning another window that you have to interact with.

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Re: Get rid of the "Pause Processing" dialogue.

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I tend to agree, it's overkill.

Nevertheless, I show you the original reasoning from the change log:

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v11.70.0113 - 2012-11-17 14:06
    * Custom Copy | Progress Dialog | Pause: Now you are prompted before 
      the process is paused. This prompt alone might often be already 
      all the pause you need, so you need not "really" pause the 
      processing (with the possible disadvantage that processing resumes 
      with processing the current again from start).
But yes, for the sake of simplicity, I'm also in favor of removing it.

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Re: Get rid of the "Pause Processing" dialogue.

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When I press Pause it loses % and the time
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Re: Get rid of the "Pause Processing" dialogue.

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Sure. That's meant by "Note that after 'Pause' 'Resume' will restart processing the current file."

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Re: Get rid of the "Pause Processing" dialogue.

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Maybe just make Resume do what Cancel in the second window previously did?
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Re: Get rid of the "Pause Processing" dialogue.

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I think I found a good solution:

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    + Custom Copy: The "Pause Processing" dialogue is back, but only when the Pause button 
      is pressed while a large file is being copied. Here the choice between a real pause 
      (on Resume copying that large file will start from scratch) and just this dialog 
      (Cancel will continue copying that large file) is meaningful.

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Re: Get rid of the "Pause Processing" dialogue.

Post by Evolve »

After thinking a bit more...
The issues you addressed there were absolutely correct:

v11.70.0113
...
This prompt alone might often be already all the pause you need
...
disadvantage that processing resumes with processing the current again from start
...

But the way you did this was a half-measure.
I can't see any benefit of losing the progress for the current file.
What that prompt does should be default for Pause itself.
When you Pause in the middle of copying a file and then Resume it should continue instead of starting over.

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Re: Get rid of the "Pause Processing" dialogue.

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Architectural reasons. (translates into: not worth the effort)

robertu

Re: Get rid of the "Pause Processing" dialogue.

Post by robertu »

On press esc it should cancel be it a large file as explorer does

robertu

Re: Get rid of the "Pause Processing" dialogue.

Post by robertu »

still it's not changed

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