Far 3.0.4400 and broken plugins

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Far 3.0.4400 and broken plugins

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Renewal (3.18.7.4040) showed me lately, that there are some updates, so I rerun Far (x86) in admin mode (it is annoying that I have to do it, renewal itself should start updating consoles with admin rights, but I'm digressing now) and updated it to latest stable build 4400. So far I noticed problems with 2 plugins, but maybe there are more.
FileCopyEx3 hangs after buffering (reading) some [bigger?] files, just before real copying (writing) starts. Doesn't matter whether target is local drive or remote (SMB share). No problems with built-in Far copy (albeit its tad slowness, of course).

ImageView shows image only for a split-second (enough to load and show file) and immediately closes the view.

Were there were some bigger API changes that plugin developers have to accommodate for?
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You can upgrade ImageViewer manually -- 3.46.3
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I am not sure that you can find stable enough version FilecopyEx...
And [imho]
(1)it is not really faster than plain far copy,
(2)you have a big chance to lose your data if you use it.
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Thanks, 2useven10! Image Viewer you linked above works fine in b4400.

So far (in previous stable Far builds) I had no problems with FileCopyEx3.

The difference can be huge, but it depends on the use case. I'll give you one example. W/o FileCopyEx3 I copy files to my Sandisk Extreme UHS-I microSD card at ~18 MB/s (which is very inefficient), w/ FileCopyEx3 - ~32 MB/s. So it's great timesaver. And it's not a slow disk I copy from, it's Samsung 840 Pro, so reading (buffering) within FileCopyEx3 is done immediately. (Rest of hardware is rather decent too.)
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przemoc wrote:I'll give you one example...
Can you test far copy speed to your micro-sd card with following far settings:
[ ] Use system copy routine
far:config System.CopyBufferSize = 262144
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Thanks for the tip! I didn't know about far:config. I've performed some tests (repeatedly).

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      Computer: ThinkPad T430 (2344-56G)
            OS: Windows 7 SP1 64-bit
           Far: 3.0 b4400 x86 (unless stated otherwise)

  non-SSD disk: HGST HTS725050A7E630 (~466GB)
      SSD disk: Samsung 840 Pro (~119GB)
USB3 SLC flash: Mach Xtreme ES SLC (~30GB)
      uSD card: Sandisk Extreme UHS-I (~59,5GB)

copy file 151 MB from non-SSD disk to uSD card

system copy routine      -  ~14s
far copy routine (32K)   -  ~21s
far copy routine (256K)  -   ~8s
far copy routine (1024K) -   ~5s
far copy routine (4096K) -   ~5s
FileCopyEx3 (15% of mem) -  ~11s
FileCopyEx3 (4096K)      -   ~8s (b4242)
FileCopyEx3 (1024K)      -  ~10s (b4242)

copy file 752 MB from SSD disk to uSD card

system copy routine      -  ~70s
far copy routine (32K)   - ~105s
far copy routine (256K)  -  ~39s
far copy routine (1024K) -  ~24s
far copy routine (4096K) -  ~24s
FileCopyEx3 (15% of mem) -  ~26s (b4242)
FileCopyEx3 (4096K)      -  ~28s (b4242)
FileCopyEx3 (1024K)      -  ~30s (b4242)

copy file 1573 MB from SSD disk to USB3 SLC flash

system copy routine      -  ~12s
far copy routine (32K)   -  ~18s
far copy routine (256K)  -  ~12s
far copy routine (1024K) -  ~12s
far copy routine (4096K) -  ~11s
FileCopyEx3 (15% of mem) -  ~10s (b4242)
FileCopyEx3 (4096K)      -  ~10s (b4242)
FileCopyEx3 (1024K)      -  ~11s (b4242)

copy file 5944 MB from USB3 SLC flash to SSD disk

system copy routine      -  ~40s
far copy routine (4K)    -  ~86s
far copy routine (16K)   -  ~38s
far copy routine (32K)   -  ~38s
far copy routine (256K)  -  ~39s
far copy routine (1024K) -  ~40s
far copy routine (4096K) -  ~42s
FileCopyEx3 (15% of mem) -  ~41s (b4242)
FileCopyEx3 (4096K)      -  ~41s (b4242)
FileCopyEx3 (1024K)      -  ~42s (b4242)
Far copy routine with System.CopyBufferSize set to 1MB seems like an acceptable compromise for now, outperforming FileCopyEx3 in most cases.
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