Space Calculator and Copy Queues

[00:02] (external link, opens in new tab) Okay, let's talk about some more advanced usages. Let's say that I have a bunch of files that I I want to copy a bunch of really large files so I can show you a demo. So, on my left tab, I have all of my Dropbox folders. Now I want to see which folder takes the most room. So, I'm going to press shift, alt, and enter. And that will show the size of all the folders. And I can then of course sort by size. So as the folders become bigger and bigger, for example, kid videos here, they're all going to I I can easily sort them.

[00:39] (external link, opens in new tab) So now now that I've sorted them, I can for example copy something. Now what I want to show you is another feature is is background copying. First of all, let's do a simple copy of Kid Vid to my local folder. So, what I'm going to do, I'm going to say F5. Copy that to this local folder. What you see is that it's copying and I can see a progress buffer one file and the overall progress. This is very, very nice cuz it's better than the Windows copy dialogue.

[01:12] (external link, opens in new tab) Anyway, now I can press background and this now runs in the background. In fact, I have a window here that shows me the background. I can again bring it to the foreground and make it standard. But that's just a standard way. What if I have multiple copies of that stuff going on and I want to do multiple copies and not have to wait or I don't want to do multiple copies at the same time but I want to make sure that when this one finishes I want to copy something else. So let first let me just space and shift delete that stuff so that it gets deleted all the way not not even in the trash container.

[01:51] (external link, opens in new tab) And now what we're going to see is how you can actually put something in the background and have multiple copies running one after the other. So again, I'm going to copy this F5. And instead of just clicking okay, I'm going to say F2. Send it to the copy queue. And now I have a copy queue over here. So the copy queue runs. And as it runs, let me copy something else as well. For example, copy this. So F5 and again F2 to copy queue.

[02:24] (external link, opens in new tab) And now what happens that in my copy queue, I now have two things. When this is done, this is going to start and I can select all of them and create and click minus to stop something from happening. I can even do a speed limit so that the network doesn't get too congested if this is an FTP transfer or anything else. So that's it for multifile copies. is let me cancel this for a second. And again cancel both of them and delete

[02:56] (external link, opens in new tab) So that we don't take too much file space. Also one extra thing I wanted to show you is that if I go back into the folder here on my left and I just want to see how much space just one folder takes. I just have to click space and it will automatically calculate the space for that folder. If I click shift and down, it doesn't actually and I click space, it doesn't work. If I want to work do the space for multiple files and directories, I have to have only one selected.

[03:32] (external link, opens in new tab) So I click shift and up just to re unselect what previously was selected. Can say space space space and I can see what something takes. But again, if you want to see all the files and how much stuff they take, shift alt enter will calculate size for all the folders.