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Drag & Drop from search results copies the full path
Posted: 10 Aug 2014 09:43
by zer0
Having not found anything in the help file or on the forum about this, I though I would ask...
Why does LMB drag and dropping an item from a search results tab in one pane to a tab in another pane cause the item to copied with its full path of the original location? For example, if search has found the file that I want in X:\BlahBlah\, LMB DnD to D:\Temp\ actually copies the item I want to D:\Temp\X\BlahBlah\. Why is this? I just want to copy the item, I'm not interested in the full path of where it is somewhere else. Is this is the default behaviour and, if yes, why?
Re: Drag & Drop from search results copies the full path
Posted: 13 Aug 2014 13:10
by zer0
Anybody?
Re: Drag & Drop from search results copies the full path
Posted: 13 Aug 2014 14:33
by bdeshi
Did check earlier. Couldn't confirm.
<wildguess>Probably due to a tweak.</wildguess>
Re: Drag & Drop from search results copies the full path
Posted: 13 Aug 2014 14:51
by RalphM
Sounds like there's a rich copy happening but I've got no idea why, wait for Don to chime in...
Re: Drag & Drop from search results copies the full path
Posted: 13 Aug 2014 18:52
by admin
Does not happen here.
Yes, looks like rich copy , but I don't see how this can possibly happen.
Re: Drag & Drop from search results copies the full path
Posted: 13 Aug 2014 19:03
by TheQwerty
Could it be?
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v10.70.0204 - 2012-01-10 14:40
+ Automatic Rich File Operations: From now on, any copy/move
operation (drop, paste, to new subfolder, etc.) will check whether
its direct sources are "rich" (= come from more than one folder),
and then offer to do a Rich Copy or Move instead of the standard
flat operation (where things might collide/merge).
Note that "rich sources" typically come from recursive search
results or branch views.
The rootpath for such a rich operation is the greatest common
parent folder of the sources.
Re: Drag & Drop from search results copies the full path
Posted: 13 Aug 2014 19:06
by admin
No, this only sets in when the dragged files are from differing sources, and it pops a prompt first. OT seems to talk about one item at a time only, and no prompt.
Re: Drag & Drop from search results copies the full path
Posted: 13 Aug 2014 19:58
by TheQwerty
I can recreate this in a fresh copy of 14.30.0400 by doing the following:
- Create the following structure:
C:\test\src\grue.txt
C:\test\dst - At the command prompt subst 'C:\test\dst' to a drive letter:
subst D: C:\test\dst - Enable 'Use Custom Copy'
- In one pane navigate to drive you used in step 2.
- In the other pane search Computer for grue.txt.
- Once the search completes drag C:\test\src\grue.txt to the other pane.
At this point XY should have copied the file but it will place it at:
W:\C\test\src\grue.txt.
Re: Drag & Drop from search results copies the full path
Posted: 14 Aug 2014 20:43
by zer0
SammaySarkar wrote:Did check earlier. Couldn't confirm.
<wildguess>Probably due to a tweak.</wildguess>
It is not common for me to copy from search results, so I doubt I would have applied a tweak to affect its behaviour.
Re: Drag & Drop from search results copies the full path
Posted: 14 Aug 2014 21:08
by bdeshi
That was a wild guess. Besides I did look into the ini, no tweaks seemed related to the copy behavior you reported.
My wording should have been better. I should've said: "Could it be a tweak?"
Re: Drag & Drop from search results copies the full path
Posted: 14 Aug 2014 21:23
by admin
TheQwerty wrote:I can recreate this in a fresh copy of 14.30.0400 by doing the following:
- Create the following structure:
C:\test\src\grue.txt
C:\test\dst - At the command prompt subst 'C:\test\dst' to a drive letter:
subst D: C:\test\dst - Enable 'Use Custom Copy'
- In one pane navigate to drive you used in step 2.
- In the other pane search Computer for grue.txt.
- Once the search completes drag C:\test\src\grue.txt to the other pane.
At this point XY should have copied the file but it will place it at:
W:\C\test\src\grue.txt.
Cool, got it! Goes back to a feature added in v6.40.0020 - 2007-10-26 13:16 for Backup. It has been wrongly applied to Custom Copy ever since Custom Copy was added.