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Idea #16622: Allow Pause and Resume of FTP Transfers in Nautilus

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #356: Copy / Move File Queue.
Written by Techno.FM the 19 Dec 08 at 02:42. Category: Others. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
Rationale
I love that ftp is simple with Nautilus. I think everyone does! It's great that it is built in "out of the box".

But... I am still stuck using an FTP client such as FileZilla because I can't pause and resume transfers with Nautilus.

Why would I need this?

- Transferring a large file sometimes takes a few days to upload on a bad connection. Things can go wrong and restarting is not cool.
- X crashes and you need to start over
- You have a laptop and your transfer isn't over but you need to hit the road and would like to resume the transfer at a later time.

I think you guys get the point. Everyone knows that proper ftp clients need a pause/resume. Why doesn't Nautilus have this yet?

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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #16622
Written by Techno.FM the 19 Dec 08 at 02:42.
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andruk (Idea reviewer) wrote on the 19 Dec 08 at 16:20
Apparently the Gnome devs have their eyes half closed when they code.

+1

Mårten Woxberg wrote on the 19 Dec 08 at 16:58
Andruk?

If you need to transfer files over a bad connection, why not use a p2p protocol?

2. Start the ftp session in a screen terminal instead so it doesn't depend on X.

3. How big files do you got anyway?

Techno.FM wrote on the 19 Dec 08 at 19:18
I transfer files between 500MB to 1.5 GB on a weekly basis for work.

I see no need for using p2p if I just use a proper FTP client. But this is where lies the problem with Nautilus. I wish I could use it more for FTP because it is so convenient, yet so incomplete.

Liquen wrote on the 19 Dec 08 at 20:38
+1.

I would go even further and allow pause/resume on *all* kinds of file transfers: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/6635/

Techno.FM wrote on the 20 Dec 08 at 00:02
Liquen,
that's a great idea. It is true that with sftp (ssh), it would make a huge difference.

To avoid duplicates, I will leave my suggestion as is but I thank you for the link. I couldn't find anything yesterday before posting this.


cheesehead (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 20 Dec 08 at 01:24
This is already an open bug at Gnome and Launchpad:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333730
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/172977

sayakb (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 20 Dec 08 at 07:57
Marked as a dupe of #356
Though they are not totaly duplicates, what the other idea proposes also covers this one.

Techno.FM wrote on the 20 Dec 08 at 20:01
I didn't think that they were that similar but the launchpad link and all the other duplicates listed are similar to my idea. Thanks for adding it as a duplicate.


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