Did Apple remove the file copy progress window from Finder?

[motrek]

Every week, I back up some data by dragging it to an external drive. It's about 150-160 GB worth of data. I've been doing this for years.

For years, a small window has come up informing me of the progress of the copy operation (usually takes about 30-40 minutes). It used to show how many files were left, a progress bar, that sort of stuff.

For the last few weeks, I've noticed that no little window is showing up. It shows the normal little pie charts next to the things that are being copied to indicate progress, but no progress window.

Maybe this started when I installed Monterey? Can't remember. I mostly just noticed it when I kept trying to eject my external drive and it kept telling me it was in use and I finally figured out the copy operation hadn't finished, despite there being no progress window.

Seems kinda dumb that they would remove this feature, no?

 

[macphoto861]

The progress bar window still comes up for me, but in Monterey it’s “hideable” now, and is pretty easy to do so inadvertently. I’m not at my computer at the moment so I can’t say for certain, but I think even just option-clicking on the desktop (which I often do to switch to the Finder and hide other apps) will hide that progress window. To see it again, under one of the Finder menus (again, apologies, I’m on my iPad now) there’s a “Show Progress” or something like that.

 

[motrek]

Perfect, thanks for the tip. Somehow the window reappeared on its own after an OS update so I think it was likely a macOS bug somewhere. But I'll keep this in mind if it happens again.

 

[flowrider]

I never lost it. I'm on 12.2, beta 2. Have been on all iterations.

ou

 

[Trishul]

another tip, click the progress pie chart on the drive in the left sidebar, and the I symbol, and the bar should pop back up