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Hi

Today I was copying a large file (let's say.. 10 GB) from my external 2.5" drive to an internal one, and by accident I clicked in the device notifier (don't know how, but.. just believe me ) and the drive was un-mounted, so the copy was stopped. When going to recopy it only the first half had been copied and I had to overwrite it, ALL the file..

What about having a new option to "continue" the copy (not only skip, cancel or overwrite), if you are really sure that the target file is just a part from the source one? In my example the second copy would have been far faster.

Regards

Approved unless somebody says it's technically impossible

Impossible? The idea is quite simple:
If source and target do have the same name and you get the usual asking dialog with the typical options (cancel, rename, overwrite..) IF the target is smaller than the source maybe it is because of having a partial copy, so the user gets a chance to continue it. There is no need to check if this partial copy matches the source byte to byte, it's THE USER who decides.

So if the target is bigger than the source then the "continue" button should be disabled.

Regards

This is fine on local filesystems, for remote filesystems and downloads you would need to download the existing portion again just to do the check.

I think a better approach would be to keep track of transfers that failed part-way through and give you the option to resume them whenever it becomes possible. This would also be useful, for example, when transferring off or on remote filesystems when moving through areas with spotty wifi coverage, you wouldn't lose the transfer when your wireless cut out.

I'm quite impressed that you were able to fit a 10 GB file on a 2.5GB drive in the first place...

Ooops!! I was talking about 2.5"

It's already fixed, thx