Hey everyone,

 

When using Midnight Commander (a few sessions at a time, usually), I frequently get "Incomplete File Was Retrieved" and it asks if I want to keep the file.

 

What's the proper answer to this question?  :-)  I think it's generally "No"...  but I don't really know what it's asking.

 

Thanks,

 

Russell

Hey everyone,

 

When using Midnight Commander (a few sessions at a time, usually), I frequently get "Incomplete File Was Retrieved" and it asks if I want to keep the file.

 

What's the proper answer to this question?  :-)   I think it's generally "No"...  but I don't really know what it's asking.

 

Thanks,

 

Russell

 

I take this to mean the move was not successful and it retrieved the file. Now it is asking if I want to keep it.

I was moving some files and I got this error when the target drive filled up. I answered YES because I wanted to keep the file on the original drive since the move failed.

 

I am sure someone with more experience will correct me if I am wrong.

Yikes!

 

I thought it was asking to keep PART of a file - as a new file?

 

Thanks,

 

Russell

A.  Does anyone know?  (above question)

 

B.  Also, it seems that when MC moves files, it copies ALL of the files first, then goes back and deletes - not one file at a time, but as a group - so if your destination drive can't hold all the files, the operation aborts - and you end up with at least a partial set of duplicates...  could be many, many GB of files.  Is this right?  Is there a way to change it to a PER FILE move operation?

 

Thanks,

 

Russell

I'm still not sure what it means when Midnight Commander (used to copy/move files on UnRaid) replies with "Incomplete File Was Retrieved" and asks is you want to save the file.  I have learned a little...  You can get this message if your destination doesn't have the required space for the file - but you can also simulate the problem and get this message if you pick a decently large file, select a destination for it, press F6 to move it... and then ABORT the operation.  You'll get the same message.  But I'm still not sure the proper answer - YES or NO to save the file?

 

Thanks,

 

Russell

Do some tests with copies of files.

I'm still not sure what it means when Midnight Commander (used to copy/move files on UnRaid) replies with "Incomplete File Was Retrieved" and asks is you want to save the file.  I have learned a little...  You can get this message if your destination doesn't have the required space for the file - but you can also simulate the problem and get this message if you pick a decently large file, select a destination for it, press F6 to move it... and then ABORT the operation.  You'll get the same message.  But I'm still not sure the proper answer - YES or NO to save the file?

 

Thanks,

 

Russell

always say NO because if you say YES, you'll have a complete file (original) on one disk and a incomplete one (the falty copy) on another disk with the same name.

That will confuse unRAID as it will always show you the first file it finds (if they are in the same directory of course).

So if the incomplete one is on disk1 and the complete is on disk2, you'll never see the complete one anymore and you will think that it his corrupted and delete it. And lose the file forever.

Thank you Jupilerman for confirming what I'd thought I'd noticed.  Hopefully it won't be too tough for me to go back and delete the smaller size version of the same name for those times I did say "Yes."

 

Any chance there is a way to set the MOVE operation to copy a file, delete the source file, copy another file, delete the source, etc?

 

By default, it seems to COPY all files to the destination, then go back and delete all the SOURCE files in one batch...  While it's probably a tiny bit faster this way, I'd really prefer that it operate one file at a time (makes it easier to estimate the space and time it will take to complete a move).

 

Thanks,

 

Russell