I've actually had a discussion pretty similar a few days ago. Let me explain it in a fake chat with someone. Trying to explain it to a co-worker is even worse. I love WinSCP, but this option alone embarrasses me. If this is scanning a local disk where the read operations take microseconds and much of the data is cached/indexed already, this isn't an issue. It doesn't make sense! Not for remote transfer! You're easily spending HALF of the time just calculating the transfer! Especially if you are working with many small files (pretty much any website).

Remember how long it took browsers to show file upload progress natively, without using flash/java? It was awful.īut with FTP, in most cases you are dealing with a large amount of source files. If you are transferring a single file it would be very annoying to have no idea of the progress. You should calculate progress for something which is deterministic, absolutely. I honestly think there is an exception for file transfers. Every sensible application should show progress of an operation

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