Threaded File Operations

• When, for example, compressing many files for backup, or when transfering large files over a slow network connection, traditional file managers are non-responsive while the file-transfer is taking place.

• In this situation, with file-operation taking some time, it is not very convenient to have part of the desktop occupied by an application in a non-responsive state.

• To solve this, Probe organizes all file-operations in separate threads. With this approach, you can continue using Probe, while the transfer is in progress.

• As a consequence, we may perform several simultaneous file-operations, and at the same time be able to browse and open documents from within Probe.

Figure 1 : Probe handling three simultaneous file-operations