Robust transfer bug

ankaru · Post by **ankaru** » 2005 Mar 03, 03:33

I just enabled the 'replace explorer copy/paste with robust transfer' option in xplorer2 using the registry tweak and I noticed a major bug with it. When pressing 'ctrl+c' and 'ctrl+v' to quickly make a copy of a file I get an error saying the file already exists. Normally it would make a copy of the file called 'Copy of filename.txt'. Anyone else experiancing this problem?

fgagnon · Post by **fgagnon** » 2005 Mar 03, 04:17

You probably have your robust transfer "options" set to disallow overwriting existing existing objects. If so, the behaviour you report is by design.
If you want to allow that, then you need to enable the "rename target" option.

Or remove the registry tweak so Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V uses wExplorer which gives what you are used to. (That's my personal preference: to only use robust transfer with F5/F6)

ankaru · Post by **ankaru** » 2005 Mar 03, 07:09

I enabled the rename target option but it doesn't save. I check it then try to copy a file and it still gives the 'target filename cannot be identical to source filename' error. When I go back to options the rename target option isn't checked. How can I make it save?

Post by **nikos** » 2005 Mar 03, 08:25

that was why robust ctrl+V was turned into an option
there's Edit | Duplicate you can use in these cases

ankaru · Post by **ankaru** » 2005 Mar 03, 17:51

I don't understand though, why not fix the problem? Whats the point in having robust copy if you have to go through a bunch of menus to use it? (f keys aren't an option, I use those for other programs)

fgagnon · Post by **fgagnon** » 2005 Mar 03, 18:38

earlier, I wrote:If you want to allow that, then you need to enable the "rename target" option.

... but, because that's not my normal usage, I didn't check my claim.

It turns out that the quick Ctrl+C, V trick to make an identical file doesn't work even when one has Rename target selected as an option.

Equally easy (by keystroke count) is Alt+E, D -- the keys-only equivalent to what nikos pointed out -- but it requires retraining the fingers.