Custom Move cancel
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Stef123
Custom Move cancel
I am not sure if this counts as a bug, maybe I just have different expectations what's supposed to happen when I click Cancel. ATM it seems to be the same as Skip ALL for conflicts, but it moves all the other stuff nonetheless. Not what I want. If was hoping it would cancel out immediately and not follow through on any moves at all, conflict or not. 
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Re: Custom Move cancel
Hm, not the case here. Cancel cancels the whole remaining job.
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Re: Custom Move cancel
Thanks for checking up on this. Maybe I need a break
, might have been fooled by different sort orders in both panes.
While we're at it - 2 operations have a much higher frequency than the rest, Skip ALL and Move ALL. Which is why other managers offer them directly. I am fine with the rest being offered in the dropdown, but it were great to have those 2 directly accessible.
One way to achieve this - holding Ctrl turns the caption Skip into "Skip ALL", and OK "into Move all", but I'd be fine with any way of getting these 2 out of the dropdown.
While we're at it - 2 operations have a much higher frequency than the rest, Skip ALL and Move ALL. Which is why other managers offer them directly. I am fine with the rest being offered in the dropdown, but it were great to have those 2 directly accessible.
One way to achieve this - holding Ctrl turns the caption Skip into "Skip ALL", and OK "into Move all", but I'd be fine with any way of getting these 2 out of the dropdown.
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Re: Custom Move cancel
The checkbox ("Do this also for the next collisions") is not enough?
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Re: Custom Move cancel
Well, let me put it down in click currency:
1 = open dropdown
2 = scan the list and choose Skip
3 = enable checkbox "do this for...."
4 = click OK
Totals 4 clicks instead of one, for an operation that is likely to be one of the most heavily used in a file manager. Amounts to a hundred clicks in the course of a workday, not adding up the price you pay in a week or month.
Not to mention that next time I do the same thing for Overwrite all, and then for Suffix all. Which for me is the only close runner-up to the #1 and #2 champions. If these 2 were outside, I could leave Suffix selected in the dropdown, et voila - we'd have 3 options at direct access. If that doesn't suffice, well, THEN the dropdown is good to have. Once in a while, not every go-around as it is the case now.
1 = open dropdown
2 = scan the list and choose Skip
3 = enable checkbox "do this for...."
4 = click OK
Totals 4 clicks instead of one, for an operation that is likely to be one of the most heavily used in a file manager. Amounts to a hundred clicks in the course of a workday, not adding up the price you pay in a week or month.
Not to mention that next time I do the same thing for Overwrite all, and then for Suffix all. Which for me is the only close runner-up to the #1 and #2 champions. If these 2 were outside, I could leave Suffix selected in the dropdown, et voila - we'd have 3 options at direct access. If that doesn't suffice, well, THEN the dropdown is good to have. Once in a while, not every go-around as it is the case now.
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Re: Custom Move cancel
What if "Do this also for the next collisions" would also affect the Skip button? Would that help?
And I like the CTRL idea: it would be an alternative to ticking "Do this also for the next collisions".
And I like the CTRL idea: it would be an alternative to ticking "Do this also for the next collisions".
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Re: Custom Move cancel
ANYthing would help that speeds it up, especially the heavily used Skip all.admin wrote:What if "Do this also for the next collisions" would also affect the Skip button? Would that help?
This is not something I have idly thought up in my spare time, it was born in the nitty-gritty of daily workloads. And it stuck with me, very persistently. So I kept wondering what makes me spend so much time on this dialog.
I had memorized key sequences - S for skip several times, Alt N to enable the checkbox, I had tried to use SyncSelect instead - but none of it matches the smooth and slick workflow I am used to. Not that I am fixed on having it a certain way, clicking with modifier keys is fine, the checkbox affecting the skip-button is great, too. In fact, I had considered suggesting a similar solution, putting a checkbox next to Skip or having 3 checkboxes, easing up on the dropdown.
Thanks for considering it, I am open to further ideas. What you said so far sounds good.
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Re: Custom Move cancel
The CTRL thing is difficult. I did the other for now.
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Re: Custom Move cancel
Thanks.
Much better now. I hope it won't confuse others. No damage possible, though, it only affects Skip. MIght be more obvious if you removed the skip entry from the entry.
Much better now. I hope it won't confuse others. No damage possible, though, it only affects Skip. MIght be more obvious if you removed the skip entry from the entry.
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