Hi. Yesterday I was trying to move a folder (cut/paste) in one of my network drives to an upper directory on same drive. (\aurora\d\MISC\Backup to \aurora\d). Since dirs&files are in the same network drive, dopus should've just move it to upper dir without copying, but it copied the whole dir contents (2gigs) like when you move files to another drive. Is this a bug or am I missing a setting?
Sounds like a bug to me. Let's try to narrow it down so GPSoft can reproduce/fix it more easily:
Does it always happen, or just sometimes?
Does it also happen if yo use a mapped drive instead of UNC path?
Does it only happen with that particular server? (If so, anything special about it, e.g. Samba?)
Does it happen if you use the Copy button in the toolbar (copies from Source to Destination windows) or only when using Copy & Paste?
Yes it happen sometimes. I think it only does this, when you want to move a dir in the root of share to another dir, or when you want to move a dir to the root of share. Tried it couple times, so I'm quite sure about that.
Root of share is \aurora\d.
- When I want to move (cut/paste) any dir from \aurora\d to somewhere else on same network drive, It does this, It copies files/folders instead of moving.
- When I want to move (cut/paste) lets say \aurora\d\ABC\blabla to root of share (\aurora\d), It does this.
- When I want to move (cut/paste) \aurora\d\ABC\blabla to \aurora\d\ABC\asdf , It doesnt do this. (as both target and destination are not in root)
Weird, everything works fine with mapped drive, unlike UNC path. But I never map a network drive, I usually use UNC path, mapping slows down XP when booting.
This is my home network, server is Windows XP, windows file sharing enabled there.
I think I deleted that copy button in the toolbar. Anyway, Isn't that Copy button in the toolbar does copy/paste the folder instead of moving? (which I dont want like that). I'm using both context menu cut/paste, and ctrl+x/ctrl+v . They give the same result.
Thanks for all the details! They should make it much easier to solve the problem.
The Copy and Move buttons in the original toolbar are different to the clipboard copy/cut/paste buttons. When you click Copy (or Move) Opus will immediately copy (or move) the selected files and folders from the Source lister to the Destination lister. (Or you'll be asked for a destination if only one window is open.)
can you please write down the code of that toolbar cut/paste buttons so I can try those to see if that button command does make any difference.
You can grab them, pre-made, from the Customize dialog.
Both are in the File Commands category: Copy File and Move File.
If you want the actual commands that the buttons run then they are:
Copy
and
Copy MOVE