Little Backup Things
Posted: 08 Sep 2008 11:47
Two little things about the Backup feature :
- You know how we get feedback in the statusbar, and unless I'm wrong XY doesn't show what file is being copied, but which was last copied. Nothing wrong with that, but it makes for a somewhat odd (and possibly confusing) situation when the first file to be copied is rather large.
Because then, we start the Backup, in the statusbar we have the usual blue "half-arrow" and... nothing! No text whatsoever, it's blank (since nothing has been copied yet). And when you don't know/remember why that is, you do look at this and wonder why there isn't any status, is everything alright, is XY doing anything, is there a problem... ??
So, I know it's not much, but maybe initiate with a "Backup operation in progress..." message instead of leaving the statusbar empty would be a good idea.
- Could there be an option for another type of LOG, that would not list all successful operations. Because when you have lots of files being treated, that makes for a pretty huge LOG, and in all honesty all I care about are the overall info & the details for what went wrong.
I was gonna suggest an option "Detailled LOG" that, when activated, works as it does now, but when not wouldn't LOG everything, but I realize that it might depend on people what they want to be logged, so ideally one could choose among the different messages ("Copy", "Over", "NoOv", "FAIL") which to LOG, but that might become too much, maybe we should just forget about this...
- You know how we get feedback in the statusbar, and unless I'm wrong XY doesn't show what file is being copied, but which was last copied. Nothing wrong with that, but it makes for a somewhat odd (and possibly confusing) situation when the first file to be copied is rather large.
Because then, we start the Backup, in the statusbar we have the usual blue "half-arrow" and... nothing! No text whatsoever, it's blank (since nothing has been copied yet). And when you don't know/remember why that is, you do look at this and wonder why there isn't any status, is everything alright, is XY doing anything, is there a problem... ??
So, I know it's not much, but maybe initiate with a "Backup operation in progress..." message instead of leaving the statusbar empty would be a good idea.
- Could there be an option for another type of LOG, that would not list all successful operations. Because when you have lots of files being treated, that makes for a pretty huge LOG, and in all honesty all I care about are the overall info & the details for what went wrong.
I was gonna suggest an option "Detailled LOG" that, when activated, works as it does now, but when not wouldn't LOG everything, but I realize that it might depend on people what they want to be logged, so ideally one could choose among the different messages ("Copy", "Over", "NoOv", "FAIL") which to LOG, but that might become too much, maybe we should just forget about this...
