Hi there! o)
I just had my first filtered delete operation.. and I had some diffculties with it. o)
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It seems the delete moans about read-protected files, although these do not match the filter.
So I needed to deal with a lot of "unprotect/skip" requesters for files which should not have been touched/deleted and they actually were not. -
It also seems DO always asks wether to delete selected folders and if I confirm with "Delete", it does not delete them.
This is kind of expected, but irritating at the same time. o) Maybe a different message could be displayed here as well, some text that does not give the impression the whole folder is about to be deleted and that there is a filter in place which might result in no delete happening at all. You already have something like that in the very first requester (shown in third image below).
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I was unsure about using the filter in conjunction with a delete command which uses the recycle bin.
I got the impression the filtered delete is not recursively doing atomic deletes if the recycle bin is active during the delete (so the windows delete takes over, deleting without taking into account the activated filter?). Not sure here, went for the NORECYCLE option to prevent any damage. -
There is no "Skip All" available
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The progress dialog did not give any path information, just folder names from somewhere deep in the structure which do not help to decide wether the operation is working as expected or not and at what stage or path it is currently working on.
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Once a requester pops up during the process, the progress dialog cannot be dragged around anymore to check directory sizes or interact with some (navigational) buttons (up/parent in my case). But it's the very first confirmation which does allow the progress dialog to be dragged around, so maybe this can be the same for requester situations while the delete process is ongoing? The following is the first requester, the progress windows is draggable here in contrast to the "Delete Warning" situation shown in the first image e.g.
In the end, I did not feel very comfortable using a filter in conjunction with the delete operation. I kind of felt out of control about what was going on and thought I would let you know. Maybe there is something which can be done to enhance this experience in the future and maybe there is something I just did wrong. o) Thanks! o)
