no progress bar while copying files

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

I am having the same issue here in Ubuntu Budgie 17.10.
The indiactor (progress bar) doesnt show up when copying files (mostly large files) most of the time. Only shows up sometimes maybe by luck. Have reinstalled the system twice, yet to no avail.
Hoping it to be fixed asap.

Thank you for your bug report, that's not a bug though but an upstream design decision. The copy indicator is a circle icon in the top bar, you can click on it to have the details of the copy.
The file on right clicking is another problem see bug #1632027

@seb128
Yeah ofcourse the circle appears sometimes.
Although, the circle icon on the top of the window doesn't appear always (most of the time) when copying/moving large files from one media/location to another.

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

I filed an upstream issue: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/142

On the System 76 customized version of 17.10 there is a "pie" graph symbol in the Nautilus top bar that provides access to the progress indicator.

This still exists in 18.04.

The biggest issue is that currently there is no way to cancel a file copy batch.

I forgot to mention, that I am using Ubuntu Budgie 18.04.

I have the same bug and can confirm the following within several systems:

16.04, 16.10, 17.04, 17.10 and 18.04 (ubuntu standardversion without any Desktop manager customizations)

If I copy from Desktop into a nautilus-window or if I copy from a nautilus window to the Desktop I will have no copy or moving dialog.

This happens with Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V as well as with the context menu.

If I navigate within the nautilus window to the Desktop-directory and copy/paste/move I will get a copy dialog either a progressbar or a pie-icon (in newer versions).

This Bug happens every time and on different systems. It seems that the Desktop is not bound to nautilus correctly.

Please fix this problem since I don't remember my work-around all the time and have to wait blindly until my copy/moving-actions has finished.

Thanks.

This is still happening. Ubuntu Budgie 18.04

Still happening on Ubuntu Budgie 18.10...

add Ubuntu 18.10

Reproduction and unexpected user experience details:

* In a nautilus window, navigate to a folder that contains a source folder of large files (e.g., video or pictures) that is sufficient to trigger the copy progress indicator.
* Create two `test1` and `test2` folders on the Desktop
* In a new nautilus window, open the Desktop folder. At this point, one should see `test1` and `test2` folders on the desktop and in the Desktop folder in the nautilus window.
* Copy the source data to `test1` by dragging and dropping in the nautilus window. The copy progress pie chart in the nautilus window should appear. (Okay to cancel the copy once the indicator appears.)
* Repeat the copy, this time dragging the source folder to `test2` on the Desktop (*not* in the nautilus window). On my system (ubuntu 18.10), the progress indicator never appears.

Many reports have focused on the inconspicuousness of the progress indicator; I concur with that observation. However, I am more perplexed by the inconsistency in behavior when copying to folders on the desktop versus copying to the Desktop folder within a nautilus window. This behavior seems inconsistent to me.

Yea this is still happening, I have 18.04.2 LTS. Actually there's another design problem with this- the little window isn't wide enough; it has to "..." and so I can't see the transfer rate. There's no way to adjust the size of the little mini window unlike an actual window.

Well another design flaw is that when copying a file there's no indicator that it's doing this abnormal thing of doing a little tiny icon in the upper right. Pretty much any user ever expects a seperate window to popup. This little pie chart thing is pretty much unique to nautilus right? We're supposed to guess that?

The whole design need an overhaul.

The bug is still present Ubuntu 20.04.

When copying files to an external SSD, no progress bar appears, and it misleads me to disconnect the SDD before copying is finished.