# How to tell if a process is running?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-tell-if-a-process-is-running/41833>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** scripting, ignition80, vision\
**Created:** [December 29, 2020, 10:13am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-tell-if-a-process-is-running/41833 "2020-12-29T10:13:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 29, 2020, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-tell-if-a-process-is-running/41833/3 "2020-12-29T18:29:57Z")

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No, not invokeLater. That runs a function on the gui thread, too. See this topic:

> [@Update GUI via Asynchronous thread](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/update-gui-via-asynchronous-thread/9666):
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> I’ve got a script I am experimenting with that can take a lot of time to execute, so I now use the system.util.invokeAsynchronous to run the script in a separate thread to keep the GUI from locking up. I am using the asynchronous thread to copy files from one place to another, and I would like to show the progress of the file copy with a progress bar. How would I go about this? I am importing a few python libraries to do this. import shutil def fileTransfer(): path = system.file.openFile() …

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