Fetch Softworks

"preparing to transfer" (4 posts)

• Started 1 year ago by david
• Latest reply 1 year ago from Jim Matthews

• david Member

  Hi

  Using 5.7

  Trying to upload a folder via Mirror.

  the message at the bottom of the screen states "preparing to transfer..."

  I have restarted Fetch a couple of times, same message.

  Any ideas?

  Posted 1 year ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  It will say "Preparing to transfer..." for a while, as it figures out which files will need to be transferred. If you choose "Fetch Transcript" from the Window menu you'll see that Fetch is communicating with the server. I would wait; it will start the actual transfers once it's figured out which files need to be uploaded.

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 1 year ago #

• Brian Member

  This is a rather irritating "feature" when trying to download a folder containing a great number of files. It can take a half hour just to "prepare to transfer" before beginning downloading if the number of files is large enough. There needs to be a toggle to turn this feature off.

  Posted 1 year ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  You can disable this feature by opening Terminal and typing this command:

  defaults write com.fetchsoftworks.Fetch DisplayOverallProgress -bool false

  Fetch will revert to only showing the progress of the current file transfer.

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 1 year ago #