Unattended Copying mode

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Hi,

I've had a bit of a look at the unattended copying requestor. I think it's a great idea in concept, but it doesn't seem to do what I'd assume it would. I think just using a similar approach to teracopy would be a good start, but then take it a step further by showing overall results for the whole queue rather than just the current job. So, in other words, it should do this:

a) When copying, it should optionally just show the problematic files. Right now it adds a row with 'copy....' to its listbox for every file that copies properly.
b) Like teracopy, even if it's going to tell me what files are copied, it should have a button to get rid of the successful files and show me only the problematic ones.
c) Should be an option to do whatever with those files - eg retry, or move them to a collection to do something else with.
d) The dialog doesn't seem to match the rest of the app. Maybe a little down arrow (rather than the checkbox) could be put for 'more' or 'unattended'. This would make the normal copy dialog expand downwards to reveal the list of files along with the copy outcome.

The beauty of d) would be that this 'more' dialog could apply for single copies or queues, in the same way.

Cheers

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Last time I tried it, unattended mode did only list the problematic files.

Are we talking about the same thing? The window that opens to the right of the progress window when you tick the Unattended Mode checkbox?

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Hmm, yes the same thing. Just retried it and indeed didn't see entries for correct files. There were so many when I did a test that I thought it was all files, but I guess it was just a large number I didn't have access to or something.

I guess that leaves c) and d) with d being a minor one. Given the list really is just of the failed files an option to select some/all files and 'retry' would be useful also.

Thanks for replying Leo!

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Retry is already an option with the list of failed files. :slight_smile:

With d), I guess it isn't done because the progress window already expands downwards to show the copy queue (if there is one). Not that there is any technical reason why it couldn't expand again to show the unattended results, but I think that's why it's designed the way it is.

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Thanks Leo. I'll be doing more thorough testing before my next suggestion! :slight_smile: Thanks for your feedback mate.