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

Brainstorm
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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 them individually each time I want to copy paste it.

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When you copy files in Dolphin to a destination which already has some of the files then you get the choice to either overwrite them or give the file(s) a new name.
When this does not happen in your setup then something is wrong.

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Not what they asked. They are right when you grab say 300 files to copy anywhere using any file manager including Dolphin and go to copy or move them to any other location or device and some of the files are already in the new destination you should be given the option of replacing (skipping), overwriting, or renaming.

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I now did a test with 2 files in a folder and I see this:

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Apparently with just 1 file it is different.
@ashdxt This is not what you see when you want to copy your 300 files?

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i think what OP is saying is that Skip does not take into account the files that already exist when it does the check for how much space is required vs available.

this check fails because it simply assumes you want to move all the files you have selected and there is insufficient room left on the device.

the check needs to come AFTER the choice of Skip or Overwrite so that it can subtract the size of the skipped or over written files from check calculation… in the latter case, a size difference would need to be added or subtracted from the calculation as well to ensure the over written files will fit or make room for the additional files.

this would be a far more complex check than the simple calculation that seems to be at work here.

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More complex yes, but in reality should be the default in any file manager.

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just need to find someone to write it.

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this is indeed what I meant,

in lieu of the complex check, why not let the user manually over ride the check like in thunar/xfce?

it seems absurd that dolphin won’t let me do a valid file operation with no way (that I can find) to override it.

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so you are saying that in thunar/xfce you can just click skip or overwrite and it will proceed to write data to the disk even if there is not enough room?

how does it handle the out of space issue if it won’t all fit?

does it just leave you with corrupted file parts and a cryptic error message?

i would rather have this, than have that.

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Skyfishgoo is right they, I and most will gladly take the current way it’s done over the chance of damaging files.