Why does UPDATEALL ask for confirmation?

Help & Support
1

I have a very simple button for making backups from a particular partition:

Copy "P:*" to "D:\backup\p" FILTER=SysFiles_ignore UPDATEALL

So I'd expect it to do what the help says the UPDATEALL does, namely copies the files that do not exist or are different into the D:\backup. Which works, but, I'm a bit annoyed that after DO finishes counting the files in the "P:", it pops up a requester about a file already existing in "D: ... "and whether I want to overwrite it.

So why does this dialogue window pop up, or, in other words, how do I get rid of it? I mean, if I just told DO to copy the changed and added files, why ask me again unless I'm doing something wrong.

2

Try adding the following to your command.

WHENEXISTS=replace
3

That makes te dialogue not pop up, which is nice - thanks!

Still, I don't understand why was it there in the first place, must be something obvious that I'm missing.

4

People may still want to know and confirm (or skip some of) the files that get overwritten while automatically skipping the ones that haven't changed.