Betalogue

Since I did a clean install of Panther, I am back to square one when it comes to trying iDisk under the new version of Mac OS X. (I am afraid I didn’t have time to explore the issue of whether you can “save” your local copy of iDisk before doing a system install and restore it from the copy without having to re-download everything from Apple’s servers. And since it’s not exactly straightforward in the iDisk interface…)

Before trying anything, I just needed to upload a 1.3 MB MP3 file to my iDisk quickly. So I mounted the iDisk on my machine, and dragged the MP3 file to a folder. After a few (excrutiating) seconds of nothingness, I finally got the “Copy” window with the progress bar. But then — guess what? The progress bar went from 0 to 100% in about 5 seconds, and then I got this:

for about 10 minutes! In other words, the interface tells me that the file transfer was almost instantaneous (over my pokey modem connection!) but that the system just needed 10 minutes to “close” the file. Ahem.

When I get such useless progress bar behaviour in Word or Excel, I tend to ridicule Microsoft for it… I guess Apple deserves a dose of it too.

This entry was posted by Pierre Igot on Thursday, December 4th, 2003 at 11:00 am and is filed under Macintosh. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.