Some errors such as problem deleting a file offer a "Skip all" as well as individual "skip" option.
However when I get the message box:
The directory
..xxx...
could not be deleted!
The only options are individual skip, or cancel.
Please add a skip all option here.
N.B. 1: I don't know why it can't be deleted: must be something flakey with the network connection in this case.
N.B. 2: I fully support the other requests on this forum to have a "do as much as possible" mode whereby the error dialogues are non-blocking, non-modal, and do not stop the background process from continuing.
Please add a "Skip all" feature on failure to dele
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Maurice Snell
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Re: Please add a "Skip all" feature on failure to
Possibly you have still opened this dir in one TC pane? That prevents the folder reliable from deletingMaurice Snell wrote: N.B. 1: I don't know why it can't be deleted: must be something flakey with the network connection in this case.
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Maurice Snell
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Actually I later found out that the problem was that my Netware drive had a deeper nesting of directories than Windows could cope with, so both Explorer and TC gave errors when deleting the directories. Cut'n'paste of some mid-level branches to move them higher up then allowed the deletion to complete!
Anyway, whatever the specific cause, a "Skip All" would be handy.
Anyway, whatever the specific cause, a "Skip All" would be handy.
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I support the suggested feature as well and I have previously placed a request for skipping also errors while coping. The latter case though is a bit more complex and might actually need the creation of a log file also for security reasons. Some users may like the log file also for the suggested feature in this thread (i.e. for deleting with "Skip All").
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I don't think this list is neccessarily. Contrary to copying you can always easily see which file was'nt deletedpdavit wrote:Some users may like the log file also for the suggested feature in this thread (i.e. for deleting with "Skip All").
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Imprecise error messages as in this case (deleting) are really annoying. There is a similar issue related to copying. See "BUG: Copy truncates file names >259 chars!". This case is even worse than an imprecise error message: Loss of information without warning message!Maurice Snell wrote:Actually I later found out that the problem was that my Netware drive had a deeper nesting of directories than Windows could cope with, so both Explorer and TC gave errors when deleting the directories.
I think the handling of superlong path names needs urgently to be revised throughout TC.
I'm waiting for log files in TC since a long time.pdavit wrote:I support the suggested feature as well and I have previously placed a request for skipping also errors while coping. The latter case though is a bit more complex and might actually need the creation of a log file also for security reasons. Some users may like the log file also for the suggested feature in this thread (i.e. for deleting with "Skip All").