Editing Talk:612: Estimation

I've experienced this more strongly while installing programs rather than transfering files, and the "connection lost" part is not exclusively from Microsoft. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.212.196|108.162.212.196]] 22:06, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

I think there needs to be some explanation on what "per-file overhead" is, for those who don't know - myself, for instance. [[User:Codefreak5|Codefreak5]] ([[User talk:Codefreak5|talk]]) 22:12, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

:It's the time spent looking up the destination folder, adding an entry for the file in that folder (a folder is an index of file names and locations, not a physical division of the disk), and recording metadata such as the creation date and owner. [[User:Promethean|Promethean]] ([[User talk:Promethean|talk]]) 06:08, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
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-I've experienced this more strongly while installing programs rather than transferring files, and the "connection lost" part is not exclusively from Microsoft. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.212.196|108.162.212.196]] 22:06, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
+I've experienced this more strongly while installing programs rather than transfering files, and the "connection lost" part is not exclusively from Microsoft. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.212.196|108.162.212.196]] 22:06, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
 I think there needs to be some explanation on what "per-file overhead" is, for those who don't know - myself, for instance. [[User:Codefreak5|Codefreak5]] ([[User talk:Codefreak5|talk]]) 22:12, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
-: It's the time spent looking up the destination folder, adding an entry for the file in that folder (a folder is an index of file names and locations, not a physical division of the disk), and recording metadata such as the creation date and owner. Basically, it's the time it would take to move the file to a different folder on the same disk, minus the time it would take to delete the file (bypassing the Recycle Bin). [[User:Promethean|Promethean]] ([[User talk:Promethean|talk]]) 06:08, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
+:It's the time spent looking up the destination folder, adding an entry for the file in that folder (a folder is an index of file names and locations, not a physical division of the disk), and recording metadata such as the creation date and owner. [[User:Promethean|Promethean]] ([[User talk:Promethean|talk]]) 06:08, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
-In fairness, I wonder if we should mention that this is a really hard problem to solve. it's only a little bit easier than the extremely hard problem given in [[1425: Tasks]]. [[User: 00N8]] ([[User talk:00N8|talk]]) 00:02, 5 March 2018‎ (UTC)