XYplorer Beta Club

When I wrote my last post I thought about what I prefer. In means of the function I think there are situations to need both - sometimes with, sometimes without prefix (when not needed).
So I would say for 55%: you can just follow the words "with suffix" and always add it
Or in other words: I can live with both solutions - and would very slightly prefere "always with suffix".

admin wrote:So, you would have found it totally natural and expected, if the copy was appended with "-01" even if there was no collision? Hint: if you say "yes", I'll change the function. It will be less work than changing the documentation anyway!

To tell you the truth, I didn't think much about what could be the use of the command and how it should work. I just concluded from what I have read in the XYwiki and the Help File that the command will always add a number behind the original file name.

As PeterH already said, I think most of us can live with both solutions. Yes, maybe apart from jacky.

admin wrote:No, I think I never use this function to other places than "here". So I always get my suffix number.

And imagine one day, you use it but to another destination than "here". Wouldn't you find it odd than there's no number suffix ?

After all, you want to just copy, then use "Copy Here" In case of collision, say "no" to overwrite and choose which suffix you want ot use...

admin wrote:you would have found it totally natural and expected, if the copy was appended with "-01" even if there was no collision?

I know this one wasn't for me, but wouldn't you find it illogical otherwise ? As you said, all features do it, and this one is grouped with the others, goes by the same "name structure", it only makes sense to me that the natural & expected way would be to always have a number...

(and what about two or more files, from different locations, with the same name (eg. index.htm) all copied with suffix number to the same destination. You'd expect 1, 2, 3 and get 1, 2 and no number. Which is the first, the second, and the third ? Why didn't XY do what it was asked to ? Why am I ranting about this so much ??! )

bergfex wrote:As PeterH already said, I think most of us can live with both solutions. Yes, maybe apart from jacky.

But it's only because I'm right