Show a Progress Report for time-consuming actions (ex: Propagate metadata)

[ubacher]

When I propagate metadata for a large number of files it takes a long time (understandably).
It would be nice to have a progress report on screen which also shows an estimate of remaining time.

[Mario]

How many files?
How long does it take?
How do you propagate?

Usually this is done in the background at write-back time and thus the Info & Activity panel shows the information you request.

[ubacher]

A few thousand files selected and I did propagate to versions. This propagated Maker notes from raw file to jpg.
Took (I did not time it) 15 minutes or longer with the "busy" cursor.

( I clicked on a the master square and selected Propagate data to versions)