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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: bug in moving/overwriting a FOLDER
From:       Richard Smith <kde () metafoo ! co ! uk>
Date:       2004-11-19 14:18:12
Message-ID: 200411191418.12946.kde () metafoo ! co ! uk
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On Friday 19 November 2004 13:39, David Faure wrote:
> On Friday 19 November 2004 14:23, John Tapsell wrote:
> > Could we have the option "Merge", then if it is going to overwrite any
> > files, it asks again? (overwrite, overwrite all, skip, skip all , rename)
>
> That sounds like a solution to fix the "confusion", BUT: is there really a
> use case for "merging without overwriting"? Does this answer an actual
> need?
>
> I mean if you have an old version of a source tree somewhere (or a
> collection of office documents), and a newer version somewhere else, you
> want to override all old files with the new ones.
>
> If you started copying a directory, then aborted, then want to redo it
> again, picking where you left off, then (apart from the problem with the
> one file where the copy aborted, which might not be complete) you do want
> "overwrite all" again.
>
> Any real world use case?

Say I have two photos/ directories from different computers. I drop one into a 
director that contains the other. I want them merged, but I don't want 
anything overwritten. I want, instead, to rename photos which have the same 
name.
-- 
Thanks,
Richard
 
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