[PLUG] Error splicing file

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, John Jason Jordan wrote:

> While trying to copy five files of 4.7 GB each from one USB 3.0 external
> drive to another external USB 3.0 drive by drag and drop with Thunar, each
> file got to 4.3 GB and then Thunar threw up the amazingly uninformative
> error message "Error splicing file."

> Is this another "640K ought to be enough for anyone" thing?

John,

   More likely the code Thunar uses to copy files could not keep up with the
data stream. Perhaps a buffer in/out issue.

   When using rsync and scp from the command line you know the tools are
robust and will handle files of any size.

Rich