Suggestion for COPY prompting

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Say I'm copying a thousand files.

Most are exactly identical, so I click the SKIP IDENTICAL button to skip those when prompted.

BUT, then it comes across a non-identical file.
So I get a slightly different prompt this time.

I click REPLACE ALL, because I want all the NON-IDENTICAL files to be replaced.

However, the REPLACE ALL selection overrides the SKIP IDENTICAL so now, it ends up copying every single remaining file, even when they are identical.

I think the two options could work better together.

2

Have you considered creating a button with a custom copy command that would do all this automatically? For example I have a button set up with the following command:

Copy UPDATEALL UPDATETOLERANCE=3602 WHENEXISTS=replace

When copying from source to destination it skips identical files and copies only brand new or changed files without any prompts. If you want prompts, and I would suggest enabling them at first until you know it's doing what you want, then change the command to:

Copy UPDATEALL UPDATETOLERANCE=3602 WHENEXISTS=ask

(The updatetolerance=3602 argument is used to ignore NTFS time shifts each time daylight savings time toggles).

3

Wow. Thanks for the response. I'd set up custom buttons to do file compares way back, and then apparently completely forgot about the fact that you can do that kind of stuff in Dopus.

I still think the prompting could use a little work, but it's nice to be reminded of that option.

Thanks!

4

Which version of Opus are you using?

What types of folders are you copying from and to?

5

10.1.0.4570 x64

Just copying a bunch of PNGs from one network folder to another on the same mapped drive. Nothing weird as far as know.

Just to be clear, the copy DOES work fine, no problems there. Just the prompting seemed to not quite work the way I'd have expected it to.

I did just notice that there's a 10.2 so I'm downloading that now to check it out.