[Suggestion] "current file" progress in the progress window.

[superluig164]

There's currently no indicator of the progress of the current file in the progress window, so for large files it would be nice to know how far along it's got. I was thinking a green underlay behind the filename at the top, similar to Windows Explorer's loading animation.

[xCSxXenon]

That would be a decent amount of overhead to draw for every file and would result in very flashy/glitchy animations for a large number of small files. Is there a practical reason to know that information, other than knowing just to know?

[superluig164]

I think it would be a useful piece of information to know. There could be a delay of 1s or so, to prevent glitchy animations and prevent large overhead when a lot of small files are being processed. But when large files are being processed, it will inform how far along it is.

Even just a 1MB/300MB string at the end of the line would be fine, but I was thinking for it to be a little bit more polished than that, considering the rest of the graph's fancy graphics.

[xCSxXenon]

I agree it would be a nice addition. Although, it is a free program made by someone in their free time, and there is definitely a consideration for feature creep as well. Zenju also, in my opinion, likes to do a smaller number of things that work really well and can be maintained over adding things constantly. I really like that, as it provides a reliable and predictable workflow. I'd be interested in seeing ideas that would be a lot less aggressive than the graphics or counter. Adding a delay/buffer sounds great, but that is probably more difficult than it seems, and just adds another 'nice to have' that inherently incurs an increased chance of failure.

[Zenju]

Interesting idea. Something like the following could work. But only after a delay to avoid visual noise. 1 sec is probably to small, but perhaps 5 sec?

Creating file "C:\Some-file.txt". 12%

[superluig164]

Yeah, that would certainly be plenty. I was thinking 1 sec just because I'm impatient, but 5 sec would be fine too, in practice, I'm sure.

[xCSxXenon]

What if it was based on items/s? Since that is already calculated, it could just be evaluated to determine if the current item status should be shown. If items/s <1, that would mean it is taking at least one second to transfer the item. I don't know how immediate that value is though

[superluig164]

Oh, that's a good one. I think that would be easier than implementing a new function to wait until an item has been transferred for long enough.

[Zenju]

I've added showing percent after the file name (but with a 2 second delay, and only if the remaining time is at least 3 seconds, so that it won't become a distraction when copying many small files).
https://www.mediafire.com/file/7dc0hdi4f13fgbc/FreeFileSync_11.17_%255BBeta%255D_Windows_Setup%25282%2529.exe