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Let's get scientific, means: think deeper, act higher (haha). I found this interesting article today:
http://quickkeydotnet.sourceforge.net/filetransfer.html
Transferring Files in Windows
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Ok...so I read the article...seems that good ole DOS XCOPY does things better than new fancy GUI's maybe?
Anyway, one thing I saw that might be applicable to XY was the idea of a simulation run for a copy...my favorite backup utility (SyncBack) allows one to do so, thus finding most potential problems...but when one does copy via drag-drop, simulation is likely impossible...but maybe some sort of a quick space available check could occur, if not already done?
Anyway, one thing I saw that might be applicable to XY was the idea of a simulation run for a copy...my favorite backup utility (SyncBack) allows one to do so, thus finding most potential problems...but when one does copy via drag-drop, simulation is likely impossible...but maybe some sort of a quick space available check could occur, if not already done?
Still spending WAY TOO much time here! But it's such a pleasure helping XY be a treasure!
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Yes, nothing new in the fact that the whole copy/move thing in Windows sucks. Actually, just yesterday I was ragging about how it sucks again, I just hate it! 
It's lame, slow, ...
I normally use SuperCopier to handle thoose operations, but it is quite buggy aswell unfortunately, and with it many cool XY features don't work (no select on paste, Copy Here As & other features don't work cause SC creates a folder with the supposed new filename, etc
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So to answer another question asked somewhere else: even though there's some other features I know I'll love, like Catalog alias, etc, the feature I need/want the most in XY would be, for me, to have XY handle the move/copy operations itself; with a good, smart, fast handling, error report, etc
It's lame, slow, ...I normally use SuperCopier to handle thoose operations, but it is quite buggy aswell unfortunately, and with it many cool XY features don't work (no select on paste, Copy Here As & other features don't work cause SC creates a folder with the supposed new filename, etc
)So to answer another question asked somewhere else: even though there's some other features I know I'll love, like Catalog alias, etc, the feature I need/want the most in XY would be, for me, to have XY handle the move/copy operations itself; with a good, smart, fast handling, error report, etc
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