Keep a file queue on multiple simultaneous uploads for a zip of all files

[Gerrit0]

This would be very helpful when transferring a few dozen images from an iPhone to PC, it would be great to download all of them at once rather than hitting save after each file transferred.

[blenderskool]

@Gerrit0 From what I understand, this would allow multiple files that were received to be downloaded together as one zip file?

[Gerrit0]

Yep, that was the idea

[blenderskool]

@Gerrit0 Right, I see, this was the behavior in v1.x. But the issue which I and few others felt was that it adds friction to the experience as you have to manually unzip the zip file once you receive it.

It does make sense when you have a lot of files, but having a large number of files being zipped on the browser would add overheads to file transfer speeds too 😕

[Gerrit0]

Perhaps just a checkbox to pick one one behavior or the other? I agree that it definitely would add friction with a small number of files transferred (<3 ?)

[blenderskool]

Gave this some more thought, and I think we can try the following flow:

• User selects > 1 no. of files:
  • If the no. of files < 5:
    • Proceed with sending each file individually.
  • else:
    • Show a modal to the user with two options. One to send individually and other to send all as a single zipped file.

Open to suggestions or alternate ideas.