#4587 HIGH Untriag: Bulk downloading of Journal files to USB useful for G1G1.

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#4587: Bulk downloading of Journal files to USB useful for G1G1.
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  Reporter:  MitchellNCharity  |       Owner:  tomeu    
      Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  new      
  Priority:  high              |   Milestone:  Untriaged
 Component:  interface-design  |     Version:           
Resolution:                    |    Keywords:           
  Verified:  0                 |  
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Comment(by tomeu):

 Replying to [comment:2 Eben]:
 > There are two mechanisms I considered for performing this kind of
 action.  First, we can add a "copy contents to..." action on any storage
 device in the tray, which offers any other storage devices as targets.
 This would make it simple to copy the Journal to a backup disk, or copy
 all the content on a flash drive into the Journal.

 Easy to implement, but how we show progress here? We need to be able to
 cancel the copy, and also handle the case where the destination device has
 not enough space.

 > The second and less well defined method involves the selection checkbox
 system, which would allow one to create a selection of multiple entries in
 the Journal and act on them at once, with one of the available actions
 being "copy to..."

 I'm afraid checkboxes doesn't work with a big, scrolled list view, as is
 difficult to see at once what we are going to copy.

 > Tomeu, can you give implementation estimates on these approaches?  The
 former is obviously a lot easier, and might still be useful in the field.
 As a follow-up question, can you currently drag one device icon onto
 another device icon to do the same thing?  Enabling that would also make
 sense.

 Yeah, also quite easy.

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