A couple of ways to find iDisk upload progress/speed

Feb 09, '06 05:43:00AM

Contributed by: ryebrye

Anyone who has ever transfered a large file to an iDisk knows how pathetic the copy dialog is. "(Closing file...) - Please wait" tells you nothing about how long it will take, nor how much data has been copied. Recently, I had to upload a moderately-large (30 meg) file over a slow (15 KB/sec) connection. After a half hour or so, I began to wonder what was going on with the transfer -- and the dialog box wasn't helping much.

I opened my Activity Monitor (in Utilities) and switched to the Network view -- I recently had restarted, so my total data sent was roughly equivalent to the data I was sending up to the iDisk. With no other applications sending data, my outgoing data speed was what was getting sent to the iDisk. This helped me verify that my data actually was getting transfered, and that a bunch of it had already gotten there.

Another method that I have used in the past is going to the iDisk and using the "Get Info" on a file that I'm in the process of transferring.

Why Apple doesn't give you a more detailed explanation of what is going on when you send files to an iDisk is beyond me. At least there are some other ways of figuring it out.

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