Auto increment Drag and Drop Files

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nbernard
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Auto increment Drag and Drop Files

Post by nbernard »

For years, I could open a pdf and manually drop individual pages from the pdf into Xyplorer and it would auto increment something like this:
Untitled Extract Pages-04.pdf
Untitled Extract Pages-03.pdf
Untitled Extract Pages-02.pdf
Untitled Extract Pages-01.pdf
Untitled Extract Pages.pdf

But several months ago something changed.
No instead of auto incrementing, it pops up a box that says " Overwrite Existing Item?"
I've attached a screen shot of the pop up.

I've tried a few things I've seen on here but I'm doing something wrong.
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nas8e9
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Re: Auto increment Drag and Drop Files

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Do you have Tools > Configuration > Safety Belts, Network > Confirm drag and drop, and/or Confirm copy and move operations, enabled? If so, does disabling both options help?

nbernard
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Re: Auto increment Drag and Drop Files

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I don't have any of those options checked under Safety Belts

nas8e9
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Re: Auto increment Drag and Drop Files

Post by nas8e9 »

I can confirm the behaviour you're seeing. According to the help file:
Any file operations triggered by drag and drop to XYplorer from another application are not spawned to XYcopy.
...which seemingly means no options available, unfortunately.

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Re: Auto increment Drag and Drop Files

Post by RalphM »

What happens if you click No on that dialog?
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Re: Auto increment Drag and Drop Files

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nbernard wrote: 13 Jul 2020 00:30 For years, I could open a pdf and manually drop individual pages from the pdf into Xyplorer and it would auto increment something like this:
Untitled Extract Pages-04.pdf
Untitled Extract Pages-03.pdf
Untitled Extract Pages-02.pdf
Untitled Extract Pages-01.pdf
Untitled Extract Pages.pdf

But several months ago something changed.
No instead of auto incrementing, it pops up a box that says " Overwrite Existing Item?"
Yes, this has been wished and it seems to be a general standard.

nbernard
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Re: Auto increment Drag and Drop Files

Post by nbernard »

I don't understand why it worked for years and then suddenly stopped. It's one of the major reasons I liked the program.
Thanks for your help!

nbernard
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Re: Auto increment Drag and Drop Files

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RalphM wrote: 13 Jul 2020 03:49 What happens if you click No on that dialog?
It will auto increment. But I used to be able to just drag and drop nonstop with no prompt popping up

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Re: Auto increment Drag and Drop Files

Post by admin »

I will add an option to Configuration | Colors and Styles | Templates | Dropped Messages: "Auto-increment filenames on collision"

Howitzer99
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Re: Auto increment Drag and Drop Files

Post by Howitzer99 »

Just stumbled upon this fix for allowing auto-increments during drag and drop operations. Very helpful, thanks for adding it.

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