KDE Developer Fixing Long-Standing Bug Over Very Long Small-File Copy Times
KDE Developer Fixing Long-Standing Bug Over Very Long Small-File Copy Times Written by Michael Larabel in KDE on 28 July 2026 at 05:39 AM EDT. Add A Comment Since 2014 there has been a KDE bug report titled Ridiculously slow file copy (multiple small files). KDE developer Méven Car recently took to addressing this long-standing defect in the KIO code of copying many small files being painfully slow.
- ▪KDE Developer Fixing Long-Standing Bug Over Very Long Small-File Copy Times Written by Michael Larabel in KDE on 28 July 2026 at 05:39 AM EDT.
- ▪Add A Comment Since 2014 there has been a KDE bug report titled Ridiculously slow file copy (multiple small files).
- ▪KDE developer Méven Car recently took to addressing this long-standing defect in the KIO code of copying many small files being painfully slow.
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KDE Developer Fixing Long-Standing Bug Over Very Long Small-File Copy Times Written by Michael Larabel in KDE on 28 July 2026 at 05:39 AM EDT. Add A Comment Since 2014 there has been a KDE bug report titled Ridiculously slow file copy (multiple small files). With the Dolphin file manager or other KIO-based KDE programs, copying many small files can be much slower than using the cp command directly or other copying programs like rsync, Finally that issue is in the process of being resolved for addressing very slow copy times when dealing with many small files on the KDE Plasma desktop. KDE developer Méven Car recently took to addressing this long-standing defect in the KIO code of copying many small files being painfully slow.
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