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What GUI file managers show most details during file transfer?

rated 0 times [ 4] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 2610 / 1 Year ago, thu, april 6, 2023, 6:31:43

When transferring many or very large files it is annoying to just wait with very little information. I find it comforting to be able to see what is going on, even if I have to wait. That's why I would like to have something similar to what I see in Windows 10, namely:

a progress bar

size of file copied

speed of transfer

estimated time left

percentage of progress

a speed variation graph

I know that Dolphin has more details than others, but now I don't use KDE for the moment.

Note about the Windows 10 file manager: I have taken that as a benchmark in order to illustrate what would be the expected parameters. In fact Windows Explorer doesn't show all those parameters in all cases, e.g. while copying from an Android phone to the computer: it only shows progress and ETA. (I haven't noticed that kind of limitation in Linux.) Also, the size of file(s) copied vs total size (parameter no 2) is more limited in Windows than in Linux.

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answered 1 Year ago ideobedi · Accepted Answer

Stable, very complete and very configurable, Double Commander (meant for advanced use) also has the desired parameters:

This file manager has many other features with regard to copying, like creating different queues.

sudo apt-get install doublecmd-gtk

or

sudo apt-get install doublecmd-qt

One that has the speed graph (but lacks ETA) is muCommander

Considering the default file managers:

As said in the other answer, Dolphin, the Kde/Plasma default, provides many of those 6 parameters (1 to 4). Oddly, Dolphin seems to lack the "percentage of progress", but I think that in the past the Plasma notifications even showed a speed variation graph (6) on Dolphin transfer. (I am not aware of another Linux file manager that ever showed 6.)

It might be a problem having Dolphin in Gnome/GTK (it comes with many KDE- dependencies. The notifications view will be absent).

Nemo seems even more complete than Dolphin in this respect (1 to 5):

Which makes unnecessary the use of the somewhat outdated Nemo-Ultracopier

Too bad it is not possible anymore to use Ultracopier with with Nautilus, which otherwise only shows progress bar (1), speed (3) and ETA (4).

The same is shown in PCManFM.

Thunar and Caja only show progress bar (1) and file size (2).

Polo file manager, although not completely developed in other aspects.

Sunflower: