Unattended...for dummies

Hi there,

I love Dopus (I do!), but I need to ramble about this one:

I'm the guy who doesn't really quite get the programming part of scripts, buttons and stuff. It's just not something I'm particularly familiar with, nor good at or even interested in. I just want to use DOpus without having to get in its guts and play with micromanaging its entrails, so to speak. I understand that it's where its power lies, but I'm just too dumb and tired to figure out all the (sometimes) convoluted ways to make it as powerful as a cold-fusion nuclear reactor. With that in mind, for "unattended operation" to work as we(*) seem to expect, it shouldn't require knowledge of re-scripting actions nor finding the answer in a help forum.

When I press the "unattended operation", I expect that it will make the decision for me (be it replace, rename or skip, etc...), and that I can leave my desk to get coffee and pet my cat/dog/hamster/beholder without having to worry about pressing buttons for every instance. UN-attended, right?

Therefore, I think the default should be:

copy movewhensame UNATTENDED=yes WHENEXISTS=replace*

*And similar for other functions.

Now, if we want to play with it the script indeed, I suggest you leave a little line in the "unattended errors" dialog box, where one must choose between 'replace, keep, rename, etc…' and say something like "editing available under Settings/Files Types…"

/rant off

(*) PS: There are enough posts about people being confused by this behavior that perhaps the very smart programmers are not thinking about the behavior of the not-that-smart, average users in this case. Yeah?

I'm not sure I understand yet. You do not have to use scripts to use unattended mode. You just click the checkbox, and a window opens asking how you want it to behave, and you then click a second time on the mode you want, and that's it.

If you want a button which pre-selects that mode, so you don't have to click twice the next time you want it, then you have to edit a toolbar button, but the command is given to you and is simple to use, without needing to understand anything. (Still no scripting involved either, FWIW.)

Wrong, the rule is "never make any data disappear without explicit content".

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I realize I didn't make myself clear. Apologies. I think I didn't quite understand that "unattended operation" only applied to the actual job being performed, and not the queue itself.

My problem is that when there are queued jobs and a new job starts, it still will ask each and every time what I want to do (replace, rename, skip…), as opposed to continue with the choice I made when I pressed "unattended operation".

I was expecting that every queued job would follow the choice I made when I chose which "unattended operation" I wanted.

In other words, if I have 10 queued jobs and I pick "replace", I'd want every queued job to just automatically "replace" without prompting me every time.

Is there a way to do that?

PS: I understand that selecting all files/folders at once (instead of created queues) would be a solution, but I cannot always do that.

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