Moving with 'Synchronize Directories'
Posted: 2009-05-04, 21:55 UTC
I suggest to add the following commands to the context menu within the 'Synchronize Directories' dialog:
Select for moving -> (left to right)
Select for moving <- (right to left)
For single (non-duplicate) files only one direction is possible and the meaning is obvious.
This case is the main motivation for my suggestion.
For duplicate files both directions are possible and the logical meaning is that the destination will be overwritten (as with copy) and the source will be deleted.
Of course a real move is to be used if destination and source reside in the same partition.
As icons for the move operations I suggest to overlay the icons for the copy operations with a little red x indicating that 'move a b' is logically equivalent to 'copy a b, delete a'.
So the icons would roughly look as follows:
x->
<-x
Select for moving -> (left to right)
Select for moving <- (right to left)
For single (non-duplicate) files only one direction is possible and the meaning is obvious.
This case is the main motivation for my suggestion.
For duplicate files both directions are possible and the logical meaning is that the destination will be overwritten (as with copy) and the source will be deleted.
Of course a real move is to be used if destination and source reside in the same partition.
As icons for the move operations I suggest to overlay the icons for the copy operations with a little red x indicating that 'move a b' is logically equivalent to 'copy a b, delete a'.
So the icons would roughly look as follows:
x->
<-x