When moving files between two places on the same drive, they are normally not physically moved but only the directory entries are updated. However, when TC finds a file is locked, it falls back on a 'copy, then delete' strategy, and this is ridiculous in my opinion, for two reasons;
- When the file will never be released, then you will have both the copy and the original, and it gives an error, preventing you from continuing with next files.
- When a file is locked, and can soon be released (user forgot to close media player etc.) then the copy is made for no reason. (see also next question) If the locked file is big then the user has to abort, reselect files, and move again, which is a pain.
Is there a way to make TC give a warning with retry|skip before moving, and to stop copying altogether? (i tried searching through the documented ini flags and found nothing)
warn when moving locked files instead of erroring
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Re: warn when moving locked files instead of erroring
I agree.Zom-B wrote:When moving files between two places on the same drive, they are normally not physically moved but only the directory entries are updated. However, when TC finds a file is locked, it falls back on a 'copy, then delete' strategy, and this is ridiculous in my opinion, for two reasons;
- When the file will never be released, then you will have both the copy and the original, and it gives an error, preventing you from continuing with next files.
- When a file is locked, and can soon be released (user forgot to close media player etc.) then the copy is made for no reason. (see also next question) If the locked file is big then the user has to abort, reselect files, and move again, which is a pain.
Is there a way to make TC give a warning with retry|skip before moving, and to stop copying altogether? (i tried searching through the documented ini flags and found nothing)
