# Progress bars on long operations

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/progress-bars-on-long-operations/14636>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Tags:** segmentation, file-import, gui\
**Created:** [November 16, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/progress-bars-on-long-operations/14636 "2020-11-16T16:19:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![Jason\_C](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/jason_c/32/8858_2.png) [@Jason\_C](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Jason_C)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/progress-bars-on-long-operations/14636/1 "2020-11-16T16:19:49Z")

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I’d really like to see progress bars on long operations; examples include:

- Loading a scene and its volumes
- Long segmentation operations e.g. grow from seeds
- Long operations in extensions (e.g. algorithms that take a while)

But especially loading scenes and volumes.

Thanks!!