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^The file copy of large files to a USB stick doesn't stall, it is reported incorrectly since the progress dialog doesn't report actual syncing speed to a flash stick. So you have to be patient or, I have found a partial solution that consists in adding script that can be executed through CommandRunn...

^ Yes, but you have to check if the network has changed all the same. You could output the, previously mentiond, nmcli -t -f name con status, to a file and then compare it with the current hot-spot name when the machine comes out of suspend at a different location.

HTH

Certainly an easy way to handle it would be to set the script as a startup command with a delay of 10+ seconds so that it would run after Mint had already connected to a network, but how would you address a situation of putting the laptop to sleep, taking it to a different area, and then waking it ...

^Nothing changed, it was a stupid glitch of some sort in older version of BIOS that upgrade fixed.

Turned out to be a BIOS problem - just did the upgrade and everything is as it should be...

Hi,

I have 2 USB 3.0 ports at the back of the mobo. The reason for posting this question is, when I insert a flash stick there lsusb -t reports it's attached to 480(USB 2.0) port. How's that possible? Do I need to add iommu=soft parameter to GRUB or is this an altogether different problem?

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MichaelJohn wrote:Microsoft have announced their latest version SQL Server 2017 will also have a version for Linux.

“If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.” - Linus Torvalds

Ahaha... - "the communists" win - Red All Over The Land! (and I don't mean Liverpool FC )

I've never had the speed slow down in the middle of copying/moving to or from a USB drive. interestingly - I've got that on a regular basis, on my usb2 ports & it's a real PiTA when it happens. - you've just gotta be a little more patient than I am . . Yes, I can attest that mentioned "resolve" doe...

I've never had the speed slow down in the middle of copying/moving to or from a USB drive. Using which DE? I had it in Xfce 4.12 and I still have it in Cinnamon 3.2.7(possibly in KDE4.x and LXDE also, if I remember correclty) to the extent that forced me to create a script to redress this issue. ht...

However, if it happens to be writing to a NTFS, it closes much too soon and I can only probe, now and then, if transfers are over by attempting to safely remove it. Haven't had the time to see if the script will fare any better. As an illustration of the above, quoted from my previous post in this ...

I forgot to say that you should reboot after reverting packages since X was updated...

If you wish to reduce the possibility of breaking something, you should allow only level 3 updates. I've been using it for the past 8 months and nothing bad happened.

GUI way: run Synaptic, find incriminating packages one by one, select, go to Package menu, select Force version, in the drop-down select older version... Repeat for both packages.

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What you haven't said is, which browser is maxing the CPU? In case it's Chromium/Chrome, go to chrome://flags and enable "Override software rendering list" which might bring it down a bit. Chromium is currently more CPU efficient at video playback than FF and its derivatives.

I had a similar issue, even worse actually, and newer kernel resolved it. Install kernel 4.10 or 4.11 from update manager, maybe it'll fix it for you too.

(I have inadvertently destroyed this post, sorry )

To tell you the truth, I have no idea why would you monitor when something is copied to usb when there is a progress bar in most file managers. Perhaps it can be used for conky or semething else. Anyway, I decided to give it a try with Xfce's "Generic monitor" plugin and upgraded your script to wat...

I've made a typical mistake (for me) dividing with 1024 when 1000 bytes is a kilobyte - corrected... :mrgreen: With xclip installed, it should be possible to find and display the total size of files to be copied next to copy progress. Just a wee bit more work to deal with long file names containing ...

Heh, :mrgreen: I just recalled there is CommandRunner applet for Cinnamon which is perfect. Like Genmon Xfce plugin, it can display stdout coming from a script so, you won't need to clear hundreds of notifications after all. :mrgreen: A modified version to fit with this applet: #! /bin/bash if [ $(a...

I don't know whether Scripts&Bash or Tutorial section is more appropriate for this post. Anyway, most of us, who copy large files to a USB stick, somewhat more often, know the situation... not having a clue how much more time it will take or rather, how much data was written to the stick. The progre...

Thanks. I didn't know it's safe to do that. In the current installation I set the swapiness to 10 to not harm the SSD but if not using swap is totally safe then I will do that in the next re-installation :mrgreen: Well, it's not like in Windows were some apps expect a swap file of a certain size to...