Transferring very lager files is usually a slow process regardless of the operating system.
This is made even worse by doing so using a graphical user interface.
If you want to retain your desktop whilst doing a transfer I would suggest using the command line interface in a terminal. This will slow down your system but should no longer "grey you out" as mentioned.
To do this:
- open a terminal
- use the cp command eg (cp /media/usbdisk /home/user)
cp being the copy command /media/usbdisk being the source and /home/user being the destination. You will need to change these to whatever you require.
The benefit of doing this is that the shell you create by opening the terminal does all the hard work so that your gnome session doesn't have to.
Bear in mind though that the operation will still slow down your system.
If you want to see the files being transferred you can use the -v flag for verbose output. eg (cp -v /media/usbdisk /home/user)
For other useful information on this command type "man cp" in a terminal
Hope this helps
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