Monitoring local file transfers

Derek Bump list at dreamscapesoftware.com
Wed Feb 7 21:10:01 EST 2007


Richard,

What you could do is control the file transfer yourself with a repeat 
handler.  Using the repeat handler, transfer only 100K of the file at a 
time, updating the status bar as needed.


Derek Bump
Dreamscape Software

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Richard Miller wrote:
> I'm also looking for a way to monitor the status of a local file 
> transfer.... from a connected hard drive to an internal drive. I'd like 
> to be able to inform a user of the status of an ongoing file transfer 
> (through a progress bar), since the transfer could take 30-60 seconds or 
> even longer. RevCopyFile appears to be a completing blocking operation. 
> I believe this could be done with the "put url" command, but I can't 
> figure out how to use the LibURLSetStatusCallBack command so that it 
> will monitor this local (rather than Internet-based) file transfer.



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