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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: bug in moving/overwriting a FOLDER
From:       "Gary L. Greene Jr." <greeneg () arklinux ! org>
Date:       2004-11-19 10:05:29
Message-ID: 200411190505.33194.greeneg () arklinux ! org
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On Friday 19 November 2004 05:02 am, Christoph Wiesen wrote:
> Am Friday, 19. November 2004 10:43 schrieb David Faure:
> > This discussion is amazing.
> > You want to let the user overwrite a folder (full of subfolders and
> > files) with one new empty folder (or even one file) ?
> > How can you make KDE more dangerous than that?
> > By pressing the wrong button, the user would lose an entire tree of
> > folders? No thanks.
>
> Oh no, there's a misunderstanding here. What should happen is that the
> folder that gets "overwritten" (wrong word actually) will contain BOTH the
> files that have been there before and the files that came from the
> overwriting, That's the way it always worked for me in KDE, and it would be
> a real problem if that for some reason stopped working
>
> Cheers,
> Chris

Then call it by what it is: merged.

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Gary L. Greene, Jr.
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