Vscode: Progress bar for long file operations

[thenem]

I would like the see some kind of visual progress of long file operations, like when deleting a folder which takes a long time to delete due to a large number of items within the folder.

[isidorn]

For what exact operations would you expect this progress.
We already show progress in the explorer when resolving the roots of the explorer. Do you only miss it for the delete operation?

[thenem]

@isidorn I just mean something similar to what you see when you delete files or folders from Windows Explorer or macOS Finder. If I delete a folder from the explorer side bar in vscode, I see no visual indication of whether it’s actually in the process of being deleted.

[isidorn]

Also for copy / paste

[iansan5653]

I'd like to see this as well, along with a way to cancel the operation. I've recently encountered two use cases:

1. I sometimes want to delete my node_modules folder and reinstall dependencies. It would be nice to see how long is left / if and why the operation has failed. Also if I accidentally delete it, I'd like to be able to cancel.
2. I dragged about two dozen large image files into a folder in VSCode to copy them into that folder. This task took some time but nothing showed up, so I wasn't sure when it finished.

[leonjanzen-work]

If a progress bar is too difficult, I would like at least see an indicator that shows when the file operation (copy/transfer/delete) is complete. At this point there is no way to even determine when/whether a file operation has completed.

[lamnguyenx]

This feature would be absolutely helpful, especially when working with machine learning data!

[thernstig]

Drag & drop from Windows -> VS Code (connected to a remote via ssh) could definitely use an indicator. I copied a large file, tried to run some script on the file on the "ssh side" and could not understand why it did not work, until I realize the upload had not finished.