Dolphin-How can I disable/ignore the message about not having enough space to copy files?

[Dexter_I]

I often add data, and it tells me to merge directories and skip files I’ve already copied. There’s space for the new incremental data, but I can’t ignore the message about insufficient space.

[pg-tips]

AIUI you currently can’t. See:

Let me copy files to a folder even if there isn't enough space for it like thunar

Hello, I want to copy some files from folder a to a usb drive, the usb drive already has some of the files, if you exclude the files in common there is enough space to copy it, when I was using thunar on my other computer I could just override the warning and tick “skip files that already exist” and it worked. I can not do this in dolphin, before you tell me to unselect all the files that already exist, I’m not going through 300 files and figuring out which already exist and then unselecting t…

[amilias]

While I can agree the way dolphin handles this is far from perfect, it’s also a really niche problem.
If you have directories you often want to keep in sync I’d suggest using a tool for that specific use case. I’m quite particular to freefilesync (https://freefilesync.org/).

[skyfishgoo]

or syncthing works really well, esp for keeping mobile devices in sync with the desktop.

[Dexter_I]

Oh well, I’ll have to work around it, e.g.: rsync -avX --ignore-existing --progress /source/ /destination/. Thx