Bug 96354

Summary: Auto skip when copying files
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] kio Reporter: Pascal Niklaus <pascal+kde>
Component: uiserverAssignee: David Faure <faure>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: nate
Priority: NOR    
Version: 3.3.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Pascal Niklaus 2005-01-05 13:03:36 UTC
Version:           3.3.2 (using KDE 3.3.2, compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.5-7.111.19-default

When copying files/directories over an older existing target, the autoskip function is not very useful since it does not distinguish between older/newer equal/unequal files.

Since this is a primitive way of sync'ing directories between computers (e.g., when working temporarily on an other machine, e.g., office/home), a slightly more comfortable dialog would help.

Especially, I would prefer *only* to be notified when files that were somehow altered are overwritten -- a test by access time/length/checksum would be useful. Currently, an "overwrite ?" dialog appears when the files are in fact equal. Or a "overwrite when newer" option.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2018-04-16 21:43:06 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 94670 ***