Ever since Windows NT 4, I have had an issue with a very simple operation… copy and paste. It may have existed prior to NT4, but that’s the OS where it started to matter to me.
It’s not something obvious like, resuming an interrupted transfer or having the progress bar be better integrated into the status of the files being copied (e.g. indicate they are in process or in queue so you don’t accidentally edit or delete them).
I can’t necessarily call this a bug, but it certainly is a pronounced behavior that exists today in Windows Vista and Windows 7. It’s quite simple, and I’m going to talk about some of its effects.
The steps to repeat the behavior are easy:
- Multi-select several files (say file1.txt, file2.txt, and file3.txt)
- Copy
- Paste them into a new location
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