I've got a few thousand files I'm copying from a data CD to a WinXP box. 
Duplicate copies of 90% of them already exist on the WinXP box.

When I had the same scenario on my linux boxes, Konqueror quite
intelligently gave me an "Autoskip" option.  

I really don't want to blithely copy everything again--to rewrite existing
files, in case there's a chance the CD version isn't as good, and other
reasons.

How can I autoskip in Windoze?

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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.

Saw that on the intraweb somewhere, and it works. Not documented, but 
works. :-)

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     It's not feature creep if you put it
     at the end and adjust the release date.

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"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.

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Greg M. Johnson wrote:
> I've got a few thousand files I'm copying from a data CD to a WinXP box. 
> Duplicate copies of 90% of them already exist on the WinXP box.
> 
> When I had the same scenario on my linux boxes, Konqueror quite
> intelligently gave me an "Autoskip" option.  
> 
> I really don't want to blithely copy everything again--to rewrite existing
> files, in case there's a chance the CD version isn't as good, and other
> reasons.
> 
> How can I autoskip in Windoze?
Total Commander (http://www.ghisler.com/) is just a bit more 
intelligent. It'll ask you for instance if you want to overwrite files 
with earlier date stamps only.
If you want to stick to windows the shift-NO is indeed an option.

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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.
> 
Wow, they fixed that? How do they handle out of space nowadays? Do you 
finally get time to clean up and continue?

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> 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.

  I thought Windows was supposed to be user-friendly?

  In Linux obscure key combinations are usually at least *documented*
somewhere.

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                                                          - Warp

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Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
>   I thought Windows was supposed to be user-friendly?
> 
>   In Linux obscure key combinations are usually at least *documented*
> somewhere.

QOTD.

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On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:17:45 -0500, Greg M. Johnson wrote:

> I've got a few thousand files I'm copying from a data CD to a WinXP box.
> Duplicate copies of 90% of them already exist on the WinXP box.
> 
> When I had the same scenario on my linux boxes, Konqueror quite
> intelligently gave me an "Autoskip" option.
> 
> I really don't want to blithely copy everything again--to rewrite
> existing files, in case there's a chance the CD version isn't as good,
> and other reasons.
> 
> How can I autoskip in Windoze?

Maybe use rsync instead?  There are versions of rsync for Windows...

Jim

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On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 12:03:01 -0500, Warp wrote:

>   In Linux obscure key combinations are usually at least *documented*
> somewhere.

I wouldn't even say "usually", but "always" - in the end, you can always 
derive that knowledge from the source (who says source code isn't 
documentation? ;-) )

If we had access to the Windows source, we could then call that 
functionality "documented" as well.

Jim

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Jim Henderson escribió:
> 
> Maybe use rsync instead?  There are versions of rsync for Windows...

Rsync rocks. I used it from cygwin.

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