https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=384160
Bug ID: 384160
Summary: File copy: Overwrite only if size is different
Product: frameworks-kio
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: fa...@kde.org
Reporter: naught...@gmail.com
CC: kdelibs-b...@kde.org
Target Milestone: ---
When copying files from one place to another, the operation can sometimes be
interrupted mid-file (e.g. USB cable falls out, network connection drops, disk
full, manual cancel). It is sometime useful to be able to resume such an
operation (I often have this problem when copying music to my phone, but also
with network transfers).
In such cases if I try to copy over the existing files, I get three options:
overwrite, skip, or cancel. Generally, skip is fine, but if there was an
operation that was killed mid-copy, then I can be left with some half-complete
files. Overwrite fixes that problem, but then it wastes needless time, disk
writes, and network bandwidth.
It would be nice to have an "Overwrite if different (size)" option, that would
skip files that are the same size, or overwrite files that are different. This
would be the best of both options.
It would not catch some edge cases where a file has changed, but the size is
exactly the same, but I think those cases are probably extremely rare..
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