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1. Select the desired directories
2. Press F5 (Files > Copy command)
3. Click Options to expand dialog box
4. Set Files named option to |*
5. Click the OK button to start operation

Click the masks hints to display more information about masks.

These problems are often related to the dialog box font. It doesn't look like the standard Windows XP Tahoma font.

Could you change this font to Tahoma (Windows Desktop > Display Properties > Appearance > Advanced) and restart Servant Salamander?

Good idea, thank you! We can (minimal solution) visualize the ongoing process by some animation. Added to our to-do list.

Do you use WindowBlinds or some other skin software?

Do you mean some progress bar or remaining time estimation? Unfortunately, we cannot predict the depth of directory tree we are reading.

EDIT:
During this stage Servant Salamander is examining selected directories and prepares an internal script which will control following background operation.

Yes, this initial part of each operation is managed by the main thread. Servant Salamander GUI is blocked, Reading directory tree message is displayed during this stage. It could be (theoretically) postponed to the separate thread, but it is a low priority for us (there are several problems related ...

This feature is not implemented (yet). We have it on ALTAP Roadmap as Browsing network neigborhood in panel.

You can set the Do not refresh on activation of Salamander option too.

Use the Left (Right) > Refresh command (Ctrl+F9 or Ctrl+R) to reload panel contents manually.

Please try to turn off Options > Configuration > Drives > Network drives > Use automatic refresh.

Does it help prevent annoying refreshing?

Maybe it's important that the target of the copy operation was an smb share on a system that's being accessed through VPN? So the throughput is naturally quite slow (not more than 15KB/s, I expect). This doesn't really explain why the application was so unresponsive, I guess - just thought it might...

Currently you can minimize or do other things within SS when you move/copy but not in archives or from archives, or when in ftp mode. It would be great if we could keep working in SS while doing ANY operations :) Background operations for archives: ALTAP Roadmap . The FTP plugin operations are alre...

Each background (Copy/Move/Delete) operation runs in a separate thread.
You can use the Sysinternals Process Explorer to examine application's threads.

Back to your problem. Could you reproduce it with latest Servant Salamander 2.5 beta 10a?

Díky za test. Tyto zmenšeniny jsou pro prohlížení obsahu OO dokumentů naprosto nepoužitelné. Mohou tak maximálně posloužit v režimu Thumbnails v panelu, ale přiřadil bych tomu minimální důležitost, dokud nebude k dispozici prohlížeč OO XML.