XYplorer Beta Club

I'm using wipe for the very first time -- on a disk with 7.4TB of files. Not sure I'll wait for the whole thing to finish, but how can I see the current overall progress (apart from looking at space in Drives view)? The status line message is nice but that's only per-file and it quickly obscures other messages while running. I don't need to have a progress popup stay up throughout, but it would be great to just double-click the status message to bring up the popup -- and temporarily turn off the updating status message -- until I want to dismiss.

Also - hitting ESC to stop the wipe is problematic because ESC is used to stop other things like searches, and a wipe would usually run for a long time. So the progress popup should also have a cancel button and I would rather that be the only way to cancel (even when popup is not up) so ESC is still available for other purposes.

Finally, there should be a warning if you exit XYplorer with the wipe still running. I just did that and didn't realize it until long afterwards.

Good points. But a major effort to implement the way you envisioned.

Actually, Wipe was not designed with "a wipe would usually run for a long time" in mind. I rather thought of nuking particular files than whole drives. For the latter purpose I'd recomment you start a separate instance of XY just for the Wipe job.

Nevertheless I will attempt some improvements:
a) You will get continuous progress updates in the status bar.
b) On ESC with the wipe still running you get a prompt.
c) On exit XYplorer with the wipe still running you get a prompt.

Better now?

admin wrote:Better now?

Yes, it's good to have the prompts. I am see one problem though: when I press ESC, the prompt comes up, I then press Ok to continue, but then the prompt comes up again for a few more times before I can finally dismiss it.

On ESC, the prompt comes up? Which prompt is that? AFAIK it should just stop wiping. (I did not implement the promised prompt on ESC.)

admin wrote:On ESC, the prompt comes up? Which prompt is that? AFAIK it should just stop wiping. (I did not implement the promised prompt on ESC.)

A prompt definitely comes up on ESC, see below:

Ah yes, thanks, that's a bug! Gonna fix...