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Re: Dired copying file / emacs blocking
From: |
Michael Heerdegen |
Subject: |
Re: Dired copying file / emacs blocking |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:18:12 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) |
"mateusz.fiolka" <mateusz.fiolka@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I'm starting to do all my file management tasks in Dired. However
> yesterday I faced a problem I can't find solution for on the internet.
> When I copy a large file (let's say a 700MB movie) Emacs totally
> blocks. I understand it is a normal thing as it is only one process
> and all operations are synchronous. Is there any way to do it as an
> external operation? I think that something like copy queue would be
> useful (like in total commander on windows). Are all Dired users just
> waiting for their files to copy?
>
> Thanks,
> Mateusz F.
I use dired-do-shell-command (bound to !) in such cases. This is also
a better solution when deleting recursively large directory trees.