Opened 14 hours ago

Closed 3 hours ago

#13196 closed Feature request (rejected)

Add faster handling for large numbers of files

Reported by: Isaac King Owned by:
Priority: normal Component: FileZilla Client
Keywords: Cc: Isaac King
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Description

Filezilla uses only core ftp/sftp commands, which requires it to manipulate files one at a time, incurring network overhead each time. This can result in it taking hours to delete or transfer a few thousand small files. This delay is not necessary; sshing into the remote machine and using rm -r for deletions, or zipping the files before transfer, could increase execution speed by multiple orders of magnitude.

Change History (1)

comment:1 by Tim Kosse, 3 hours ago

Resolution: rejected
Status: newclosed

This is not possible, the shell syntax is not standardized. rm -rf might just as well format your entire hard disk, erase the BIOS or launch a nuclear rocket.

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