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    <p><strong>Use the size of the file -- it's your best measure.</strong></p> <p>What you display has to have meaning that the users can understand. That's the most important part. If the progress bar means the percent of the file that has been processed, that's very easy to understand, easy to quantify, and easy to calculate and display. This makes your progress bar transparent, and that is what's important.</p> <p>Think about how this is to be viewed by users. You don't need to program some sort of predictive intelligence because the users have brains and they can draw their own conclusions. So if they see the progress bar run fast for the first half and then slow down, they know that the it's processed half of the file, but the second half is taking longer. That's all they need to know! They can draw their own conclusion that since the progress bar slowed down, that it may take longer to finish the file than the time indicated in the first half.</p> <p>In fact, the users may already know something about the file being processed. For this particular file, they may know that the useful (or long-processing) data is all in the second half. So when they see the progress bar slow down, it is expected to them. This gives the transparency needed for the users to know that the software is working like it should, and they can draw their own conclusions about how long they need to wait.</p> <p>Of course, it could also still be useful to show a generic estimation "25% of the file processed in 3 seconds, so we estimate an additional 9 seconds to completion." This is also a very general basic equation that is transparent, so the users can know how to use it and adjust it for the specifics of the file they are processing.</p>
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    1. COI won't be able to make use of the file size, however you made some really good points in your answer. Thank you for the good read and simplifying what I should be aiming for.
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