Started off the day with some more improvements and bug fixes for export remotes. Then I noticed that there is no progress displayed for transfers to export remotes; it seems I forgot to wire that up. That really ought to be handled by the special remote setup code, the same way it is for non-export remotes. But it was not possible to do it there the way that export actions are structured. I got sidetracked with how S3 prepares a handle to the server. That didn't work as well as it might have; most of the time each request to the remote actually prepared a new handle, rather than reusing a single handle. Though the http connection to the server did get reused, that still caused a lot of unnecessary work. I fixed that, and the fix also allowed me to restructure export actions in the way I need for progress bars. I've ran out of time to finish adding the missing progress bars today, so I'll do it tomorrow. Today's work was sponsored by Jake Vosloo [on Patreon](https://patreon.com/joeyh).