Any chance of undo for a move command?

[kodepr]

Hi,

I need urgent help, please - I have been an idiot.
In a folder (let's say D:\parent folder\) I had a large number of folders with subfolders and files in them.
I wanted to move the complete contents (of D:\parent folder\) into a new subfolder (let's say D:\parent folder\newsubfolder\)
To do so, I selected everything in D:\parent folder\ and shift+dragged the selection to the breadcrumb bar above (same TC-pane).
In the move dialog box I should have changed the target frolder from

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D:\parent folder\*.*

to

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D:\parent folder\newsubfolder\*.*

but I must have made a typo, because all of the sudden I got an overwrite dialog, with options to choose from: overwrite (all), skip (all), cancel, rename, ...

I left the dialog box open for now (didn't choose an option yet) because I wanted to reach out for help here first:

• Is there any way I can undo this move operation (note that it is currently "on hold" until a choose an option in the overwrite dialog box)?
• I read the forum first and read something about a "File operation log file" in the options - unfortunately this is not activated ...

Any suggestions on how to proceed

• what is the safest choice in the overwrite dialog box?
• if no undo is available, how can I try and find out what my typo was and how can I the continue to try and undo everything manually?

[sqa_wizard]

At the overwrite dialog you will see both paths.
Isn't this clue enough to find out what the mistake was?

[kodepr]

Looks like the content (subfolders and files) of every child folder that was originally in D:\parent folder\ was moved to D:\parent folder\newsubfolder\
So

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D:\parent folder\subfolderA\subfolderA1
D:\parent folder\subfolderA\subfolderA1\fileA1
D:\parent folder\subfolderA\subfolderA2
D:\parent folder\subfolderA\subfolderA2\fileA2
etc

was moved to

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D:\parent folder\newsubfolder\subfolderA1
D:\parent folder\newsubfolder\subfolderA1\fileA1
D:\parent folder\newsubfolder\subfolderA2
D:\parent folder\newsubfolder\subfolderA2\fileA2

Could that be the case if my typo in the move dialog was this

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D:\parent folder\newsubfolder*.*

instead of this?

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D:\parent folder\newsubfolder\*.*

Would a mistake like this be easy to undo in the future if "File operation log file" were activated from now on?

[petermad]

Could that be the case if my typo in the move dialog was this

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D:\parent folder\newsubfolder*.*

instead of this?

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D:\parent folder\newsubfolder\*.*

Would a mistake like this be easy to undo in the future if "File operation log file" were activated from now on?

if you forget the backslast before *.* and there isn't already a folder named newsubfolder then selected files will all be renamed (moved) to a FILE with the name newsubfolder and the extension of the original file - if there were more original files with the same extension, then TC will ask to overwrite them one by one. But all the files that had different extensions will already be renamed to newfolder.ext and that can not be undone.

But since you write that your files were moved to D:\parent folder\newsubfolder the above does not seem to be the case.