17.10 Copy Progress Bar large files

[7-webmaster]

I am copying multi-gigabyte files, for example VirtualBox VDIs and distribution ISOs from my old laptop to its replacement. So I do a copy and paste from the source directory to a thumb drive. However there is no indication of the progress of the copy, which naturally takes considerable time for a typical 4GB file. Searching for help says that there is supposed to be a circle in the top bar which I can click on to see the progress, but I do not see a circle. On the target system, which is from System 76 and comes with its customized version of Ubuntu 17.10 called Pop 17.10, the circle (or rather a pie graph symbol) does appear, so the problem seems to be the Ubuntu customization of Nautilus for 17.10 that is at fault here.

[QIII]

Hello!

What release are you running on the souce machine?

[braghum]

It's a known and to my knowledge unsolved bug and connected to Nautilus, correct.

[HermanAB]

Large files are best copied from the command line, using rsync. That is the best way to ensure that the files are copied error free.

[The Cog]

With rsync, the --progress flag tells it to show progress. And I agree with HermanAB - for large copy jobs rsync seems both fastest and most reliable to me.

[ubname]

apart from the missing progress bar, i would suggest you to copy using a sftp connection from nautilus to the new pc, copying to usb flash drives is very slow, even slower if they are fat32 formatted.