Why do download bars show 100% for more than 0 seconds?
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Progress bars are never an exact science. There’s no way to accurately calculate exactly how long something will take. Say you want to copy 100 files from one folder to another. You could go okay 100 files and each folder is 1% but obviously not all files are the same size. You could calculate the totally data size to transfer but disk read and write rates fluctuate sightly and there’s also overhead to create a new file. There’s always things like flushing file write caches etc. Basically it’s just not an exact science
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