Auto-rename options: setting a default?

[chrislaarman]

(Please refer me to an existing topic if this should have been answered already. Some topics come close, and I can't see the forest because of the trees...)

Is there a way to set "Auto-rename copied" as a default solution to imminent name conflicts?


This is the situation (and Total Commander does shine here!):

A directory of downloaded JPG files turns out to feature several instances of the same original picture, but with different file names.
By setting the sorting order to "Size", identical copies are adjacent. I can then compare them, and discard the newer one.

But some must differ in their compression history. I then want to keep the largest file (as I take it for being the best preserved one).
These "different copies" do not reveal themselves until I have manually renamed them.

They may be named "456processed123.jpg" and "789edited123.jpg", and I rename them to "123.jpg".

By doing so with sorting order Size - Descending and using Auto-rename Copied, my preferred file will be "123.jpg", my second-best "123(2).jpg", and so on.
I can then set the sorting order to "Name", and easily check before discarding the less than preferred files.

The tricky bit (when trying to be speedy) is navigating to the "More Options" button and then to "Auto-rename copied". If I slide there, my preferred file will be overwritten.

Hence my QUESTION:

Is there a way to set "Auto-rename copied" as a default solution to imminent name conflicts?

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Thanks in advance!

Chris

[petermad]

Unfortunately "Auto-rename copied" can not be set as default.

But you can choose the option one step before - in the first dialog box, under the expanded dialog that opens with the button "Options >>"

The good news is that in the next version of TC, this expanded dialog can be "pinned" so it is always open.

[chrislaarman]

Unfortunately "Auto-rename copied" can not be set as default.

But you can choose the option one step before - in the first dialog box, under the expanded dialog that opens with the button "Options >>"

The good news is that in the next version of TC, this expanded dialog can be "pinned" so it is always open.

Thank you, Peter!

1) I am not aware that a step beyond yours is possible. Aren't we actually referring to the same step? (It's not too important.)

2) That "pinning" suits me. Especially when combined with short-keys.
Still, in the long run (v8?) I'd appreciate a default.

3) Would mentioning it here be enough, or should I make a feature request somewhere?

[petermad]

1) I am not aware that a step beyond yours is possible. Aren't we actually referring to the same step? (It's not too important.)

In your first post you wrote:

The tricky bit (when trying to be speedy) is navigating to the "More Options" button

It is only when you are warned against overwriting (if you have that enabled) that there is a "More Options >>" button (lower right corner), in the copy-dialog it is an "Options >>" button (lower left corner).

3) Would mentioning it here be enough, or should I make a feature request somewhere?

You stand a better chance, if you put a request in the TC7.5 suggestions (English) section of this board.

[chrislaarman]

3) Would mentioning it here be enough, or should I make a feature request somewhere?

You stand a better chance, if you put a request in the TC7.5 suggestions (English) section of this board.

Done: http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=197433#197433

Thanks again, Peter.

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Chris