POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Auto-skipping in WinXP? : Re: Auto-skipping in WinXP? Server Time
11 Oct 2024 13:14:18 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Auto-skipping in WinXP?  
From: Greg M  Johnson
Date: 2 Dec 2007 21:46:32
Message: <47536e08@news.povray.org>
somebody wrote:

> "Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote
>> Greg M. Johnson wrote:
> 
>> > How can I autoskip in Windoze?
> 
>> When it asks the first time if you want to clobber files with the same
>> name, and offers "Yes", "No", and "Yes to all", hold down the shift key
>> and click "No".  I think it's the shift key.
> 
> Correct. And it's a legitimate reason to berate MS. One would have thunk
> an OS would provide the very basic file management functions and options
> transparently. Similarly, the fact that up until Vista, a locked/missing
> file will abort the whole copy operation is also inexcusable.


I'm guessing it's a ploy dreamed up by finance: "Hey, if we hide some of the
slightly advanced features that folks might need to do their job, we can
then charge a little bit more for training!"


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