I have a curious little problem - whenever I copy or cut and copy a file from my home download directory, the file copy does not seem to complete. For example, if I copy a file of say 600MB to a destination directory, the screen advice I get says that 597.5MB has been copied, and that's as far as it goes - it will not, according to the screen notification, complete the task.

Yet, when I check the copied file in its destination folder, I find that it is complete, and will work as expected.

Has anyone else had this experience, and if so, how do I correct the faulty notification?

Any comments gratefully received.

Regards to all.
BRPY1

a few clarifications please:
Which Linux distro is this on? (Ubuntu, slack, fedora, etc ...)

Which Desktop Environment? (Gnome or Kde or ...)

Which tool do you use to copy your file? (Gnome's Nautilus?)

16pide

Distro is Linuxmint, using Gnome desktop. I really don't use a particular tool for copying - I right click on the file, select copy, move to the destination directory, right click and paste. A horizontal bar appears which tells me the progress of the copy, but which doesn't reach the full total (MB) of the file being copied, even though experience has taught me that the file has been copied properly.

Not a big deal, really, and something I can live with, but I am curious to see whether other people have had this problem or whether it's just a quirk in my system.

Regards
brpy1

That's still using a tool. The way it works is that when you paste in an application, that application looks if your clipboard contains file paths, and if it does, it copies them.