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Re: Handling Collisions on Copy or Move
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Re: Handling Collisions on Copy or Move

  • Subject: Re: Handling Collisions on Copy or Move
  • From: Christopher Stone <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 18:49:27 -0600
On Feb 16, 2017, at 00:41, Shane Stanley <email@hidden> wrote:
A safer way is to copy the file using a unique name, then try to rename it. If the rename fails, keep trying with new names.

Hey Shane,

True.

You could use something like this:

Okay, that looks pretty good.

Thanks.

One more question.

The File manager moves a file to a new file path rather than renaming the file in-place?

Similarly to Unix's mv?

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Take Care,
Chris

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