F5/F6 - Zip vs FTP

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JFierce7
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F5/F6 - Zip vs FTP

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Hi,

let's suppose I have a local folder in the left window. Then the function of F5/F6 depends on the destination folder in the right window, which might be quite confusing.
1) if right is a local folder, everything is "normal" - F5/F6 it copy/move to this folder
2) if right is a ZIP file, the default for copy/move is an URL like name: ZIP:NameOfZip, which also appears to be "normal"
3) if right is an FTP server, F5/F6 only permit to send the file - there's no possibility to copy/move locally. Hence, if you simply enter a local name (file or folder), because of usual habit, the operation will not do anything useful.

So I suggest in the case of 3) to use a predefined name like FTP:name to indicate whether one wants to really send the file. Further one could remove FTP: to operate locally.
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Try Shift+F5 to copy locally in this case.
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Post by *JFierce7 »

Ah - well, that's fine then. Guess I've got to go over the hotkeys again. I'm using only part of it...
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