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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 14:43:02
Message-ID: 200411191443.02981.kde () metafoo ! co ! uk
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On Friday 19 November 2004 14:13, David Faure wrote:
> On Friday 19 November 2004 15:18, Richard Smith wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Ah.. when the filenames themselves mean nothing (just autonumbered files).
> Makes sense. Although you could of course do this currently (and in a way
> that works in all filemanagers) by simply selecting all files in the first
> dir and copying them, instead of the dir itself. You wouldn't have subdirs
> in such a case, would you?

In the full diversity of the universe, anything is possible. I'm out of use 
cases :)
-- 
Thanks,
Richard
 
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