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Improve interaction with transfers >4GB files to a vfat filesystem #935
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Was worried that there is no way to know maximum file size, but With the exception of However, there are file-systems with copy-on-write and moving across file-systems is generally copy followed by a remove (not sure about moving between BTRFS subvolumes), this can make it more complicated. |
That is the very reason why I mentioned |
Dealing with slow, FAT-formatted USB drives can be particularly frustrating when, after enduring several minutes of waiting, one encounters a "Write to destination file failed" error for files larger than 4 GB. There are circumstances when a partially transferred file is acceptable or even desirable but many times this is not the case.
To improve the user experience
vifm
could give a list of option before the transfer is initiated:split
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