Explorer windows bar not showing

[macoloco]

Hi, booting filebot and making a transfer/rename action no problem for first time.....keep filebot opened and try a 2nd operation makes windows explorer progress bar dont show up....Filebot is busy doing the operation but no visual reference of the transfer progress

[rednoah]

You can disable Windows integration. Maybe that'll work better for you if the Windows Move / Copy dialog is giving you trouble for one reason or another:

Shell: Select all

filebot -script fn:properties --def useNativeShell=false

➔ Advanced Settings / Developer Options / System Properties › User Interface Options

[macoloco]

code applied...nothing is changed...
first time using filebot it works flawlessly
second time trying to rename....only the blue circles is shown but no transfer window or progress bar is shown
After restarting filebot...now its using its own progress bar....but appears frozen or empty all time...no progress....just copying 1 file....and close when done

[rednoah]

code applied...nothing is changed...

The configuration file is notably only read on startup. If you update the configuration file with new settings then that has no effect on already running FileBot instances.

now its using its own progress bar....but appears frozen or empty all time...no progress....just copying 1 file....and close when done

The useNativeShell=false option indeed means that FileBot no longer uses the Windows Explorer Move / Copy Dialog and instead uses its own progress bar. If you're copying 1 single large file then that progress bar will indeed go from 0/1 = 0% to 1/1 = 100% with no intermediate steps or progress since FileBot itself does not know the intermediate progress of the copy operation in progress. That's because FileBot uses a copy system call to ask the to OS perform the operation in the most efficient way possible given the file system(s) at hand, rather than reading/writing bytes itself.


Are you copying files from one network drive to another network drive, or from one local drive to the same local drive? Either way, you may prefer to hardlink files within the same file system first, because that's instant, and then use rsync (or any other specialized file transfer tool) to sync the files to a remote file system in a second step as necessary.

[macoloco]

i am moving/copying/remaming from my local hdd to a network atttached storage .....as always i did. It was last update only that show me this bug

[macoloco]

first use...ok

next time only blue circle icon spinning....no transfer bar

[rednoah]

next time only blue circle icon spinning....no transfer bar

So you mean to say no Windows Copy Dialog even though the file is being copied?

Though nothing has changed in this regard in recent releases, if you could try previous releases just to confirm that the same issues exists / does not exist with prior releases.



EDIT:

I ran a few tests and was not able to reproduce the issue on my Windows devices. Can you reproduce the issue on a different Windows device as well?

[rednoah]

I was eventually able to reproduce the issue on my Windows 11 device as well. Maybe it was a matter of getting the very latest updates. I was able to make it work by reviewing the code and doing things slightly differently. We might need to expedite the roadmap to the next release since this is kinda important.

You can do tests with the latest beta:
https://get.filebot.net/filebot/BETA/

The portable uses useNativeShell=false by default File Explorer integration has to be explicitly enabled:

Properties: Select all

useNativeShell=true

EDIT:

FileBot r10605 does not fix the issue. The dialog works only works once, and then never pops up again, even though the move / copy operations are performed correctly.

This issue has been independently reported since it affects all programs that use the IFileOperation interface:
* https://developercommunity.visualstudio ... e/10918870
* https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answe ... ndows-11-u