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[Subharo Bhikkhu <574693@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Another workaround which is more Gnome-esque (than Dolphin) is to
install thunar, and libdesktop-agnostic-vfs-thunar.

The relevance to this bug is this: perhaps some developer (which I'm
not) might want to look over the FTP-related code in libdesktop-
agnostic-vfs-thunar, and perhaps use it somehow in Nautilus'
corresponding VFS-related code.

Pardon me being a bit off-topic here, but for those who care about the
getting fastest file transfer speed on their LAN, and less about tight-
security-within-the-LAN, Thunar gave the fastest bulk FTP transfers I've
ever seen (connecting to a pure-ftpd server), even 25% faster than doing
the exact same bulk FTP copying within Filezilla.  My test data was
about 5300 files, most are small documents, 1.4 GB, transferred on a
gigabit LAN).  Compare FTP-within-Thunar to having the same data
transferred using SMB (through Nautilus), and SSH/SFTP (through
Nautilus) took 134% longer, and 349% longer, respectively.  FTP-within-
Thunar beat the pants off SMB-within-Nautilus and SFTP-within-Nautilus
for speed, when it came to a larger set of small files.

Before flaming me, I feel it's highly relevant to mention these informal
stats to underscore the point that in fixing this bug, greatly increased
file transfer speed is won (within the LAN, where FTP still has
usefulness) for Ubuntu as a whole (as installed by default).  Like over
twice as fast (even for large collections of tiny files, which usually
transfer much more slowly than equivalent amount of larger files),
compared to SMB file transfers!

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Title:
  nautilus ftp file transfer hangs in lucid

Status in Nautilus:
  In Progress
Status in “gvfs” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: nautilus

  1) 
  Description:	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
  Release:	10.04

  Description:	Ubuntu 11.04
  Release:	11.04

  2)
  nautilus version: 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu4; 1:2.32.2.1-0ubuntu13
  gvfs version: 1.8.0-0ubuntu2

  3) I tried to copy a directory with files from a server to my PC via
  FTP. I expected finishing the transfer.

  4) The file transfer window appears and after a few percent of
  progress, it stops copying. I can not close the window, because when I
  click the cancel button, it goes to gray and nothing happens after
  that, so I have to kill the nautilus process.

  When I had tried to copy the same directory again, it stopped at the same percent of progress.
  Copying the same directory in nautilus via SFTP works flawlessly. Also copying that directory by gFTP works without problem.
  I did not see any error messages or entries in syslog related to this problem.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: nautilus 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon May  3 20:23:35 2010
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=hu_HU.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: nautilus

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