why loading bars jump around instead of smoothly increasing percent?

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3%. 5%. 34%! 97%! 97… 98…

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Depends how the bar is programmed. Say you’re copying 10 files of different sizes.

If you’re doing percentages based on number of files, then each file is worth 10%.

If each of those 10% go up based on the progress of the file copied, small files will fill their 10% faster, while large files will take longer to fill theirs.

In theory you could program it to recognize size and adapt, but that’s extra work for not much material benefit. People really just wanna see that it’s still going.

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