GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 740592
Move or copy overwriting files
Last modified: 2018-06-14 23:22:51 UTC
This is a feature request. I have to copy/move files from one folder to another and when I have to do so I copy the files, paste on the destination folder and get away from the computer. Usually that is because the process will consume a lot of time. After a while, I come back to the computer just to discover my operation barely began because the system is asking if I want to overwrite a file. That is so frustrating. Could Nautilus provide a smarter way of copying files? For example: the remaining files being copied and holding the duplicates to ask the user what to do? Thank you.
I can confirm this issue. It would be ideal if the files that do not require user intervention continued processing while waiting for user input for the remainder.
I also confirm this issue. I think the simplest solution is as Jarlath points out - simply continue processing the remaining files, and request user input for the conflicting files after all non-conflicting files were complete. This would apply to directory merging, existing filenames, or other conflicts.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 339420 ***