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Bug 134251 - "conflict while copying" file dialog should offer some third alternative
"conflict while copying" file dialog should offer some third alternative
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Cut Copy Paste Undo
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: 3.0
Assigned To: Cosimo Cecchi
Nautilus Maintainers
: 150534 320112 374841 417243 442409 605769 615254 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 582943
 
 
Reported: 2004-02-12 19:45 UTC by Tom von Schwerdtner
Modified: 2010-05-03 10:44 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Tom von Schwerdtner 2004-02-12 19:45:18 UTC 
When copying a file or a batch of files, and a filename conflict occours,
there is no option to "copy the file anyways but don't overwrite anything".
 The only solution available is to rename the file in-place and then copy
it again, which is not very friendly (esp if you are copying more than one
file).

Suggestions:

1) When a conflict occours, either:

   a) provide a [rename] button, that pops up a dialog for a new name
(pre-populated with the current name maybe).

   b) add the rename field to the dialog so as to not have a popup on a
popup (but then you have multiple clicks on a popup dialog, which may not
be desireable).

   c) provde a [save a copy] button (though better named) that will save
'<filename> (1)<extension>' or something along those lines (though don't
prefix the file with anything, as it would be useful for the conflicting
file and the one that was just copied to be togehter when sorting by name).
Comment 1 Vincent Noel 2004-09-09 21:48:20 UTC 
*** Bug 150534 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Vincent Noel 2004-09-09 21:50:01 UTC 
Bug 150534 suggests that conflicting files could be renamed, e.g. by appending a
(1), (2), etc at the end of their names.
Comment 3 Joachim Noreiko 2005-08-11 10:52:22 UTC 
This is currently being discussed on gnome-usability <usability@gnome.org>.

See also Bug 47893.
Comment 4 Sebastien Bacher 2005-11-13 15:27:06 UTC 
*** Bug 320112 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Alexander “weej” Jones 2005-11-13 16:44:32 UTC 
*tumbleweed*

Anything. Please. *Anything* would put us ahead of Explorer/Windows.
Comment 6 Cosimo Cecchi 2007-12-31 10:28:05 UTC 
*** Bug 417243 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Cosimo Cecchi 2008-04-04 13:27:54 UTC 
I have made a patch for this, I think it will be reviewed/merged for 2.24.
Comment 8 Guillaume Desmottes 2008-08-08 15:00:12 UTC 
(In reply to comment #7)
> I have made a patch for this, I think it will be reviewed/merged for 2.24.

Hi Cosimo. Any progress on this? I'd really like to see this feature.
Comment 9 Cosimo Cecchi 2010-04-09 09:52:21 UTC 
*** Bug 615254 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Cosimo Cecchi 2010-04-09 09:53:13 UTC 
(In reply to comment #8)

> Hi Cosimo. Any progress on this? I'd really like to see this feature.

Yes, I updated my branch and it's now in a good shape to be merged after we branch for gnome-2-30.
Comment 11 Cosimo Cecchi 2010-04-26 14:55:33 UTC 
I merged the branch to master, closing this as FIXED.
Comment 12 Cosimo Cecchi 2010-04-27 12:36:20 UTC 
*** Bug 374841 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 13 Cosimo Cecchi 2010-05-02 14:39:27 UTC 
*** Bug 605769 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 14 Cosimo Cecchi 2010-05-03 10:44:01 UTC 
*** Bug 442409 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***