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How to Display this Dialog
The only way to get to this dialog is to use the Options | Program Options... command from the main menu (or click on its command button. When in Options select the Advanced 2 panel, and then select FileBoss as the Copy/Move Engine and click on the Setup FileBoss Copy button as shown below.
Note: The options in this dialog are the same as those in the general purpose Copy File Dialog.
Configure Copy Engine for Drag & Drop
Purpose
This dialog configures how FileBoss will copy / move files when they are dropped on a FileBoss Window. Note that these settings are only used when files and folders are dropped on FileBoss (not when they are dropped on other programs even if the were drug from FileBoss) and the FileBoss copy engine is used for drop operation rather than the internal Windows copy engine.
Hint: When Dragging and Dropping files and folders it is the receiving application that performs the actual copy, move or create shortcut operation, i.e. once the files have been dropped on a program that program takes control of the process. For that reason when files are dragged from FileBoss and dropped on another application they will be copied, moved or opened by that program, using that program's code rather than by FileBoss. This is why these settings only apply when files and folders are dropped on FileBoss.
Actions when Destination Entry Already Exists
No / Yes / Ask / Only if Newer
The first four options determine whether or not files can be overwritten by the files being copied.
When Only if Newer is selected the times the files were last modified are used for comparison.
Rename
Rather than overwriting files that exist, you can instruct FileBoss to rename either the new or the existing files.
Select New File to rename the file that is being copied (the existing file will not be changed).
Select Existing File to rename the existing file, the new file will then be copied using the old name.
Whether you choose to rename the existing file or the new file depends only on what you are doing and your personal preference.
Click on Set... to specify how the files - either new or existing - will be renamed. You can add text and/or sequential numbers to the new filenames.
Setting When FileBoss will Ask for Confirmation
These options determine when FileBoss will alert you that a file is going to be overwritten by the copy or move process. The warnings are fired when an existing file has one of the checked attributes. For instance if the EXE box is checked FileBoss will ask you what to do before copying a source file over an existing target file that has an extension of .EXE, .COM, .DLL, .DRV, .OCX or .BAT. When asked what to do your options will be to skip that one file, cancel all remaining files, overwrite that one file, overwrite all remaining files or even rename the file.
| None | This is a master check box that, when checked, turns off all warnings. You'll note that when it is checked the other check boxes are grayed indicating that they have no effect. To enable the other check boxes uncheck this 'None' check box. |
| Hidden | Marked by Windows as a Hidden File. Normally files marked with this attribute should not be modified. |
| System | Marked by Windows as a System File. Normally files marked with this attribute should not be modified. |
| Read-Only | FileBoss will stop and ask permission whenever one of these attributes is set on the existing target file. Note that changing (which overwriting a file certainly does) any file with the Hidden, System or Read-Only attribute may disrupt the stability of your system, if not render it totally unusable. |
| Archive | The archive bit indicates that a file has been changed. This attribute for a file is set by Windows whenever a file is modified by either Windows or a program such as a Word processor or paint program. Backup programs often use this attribute to determine what files need to be backed up and, after backing up the file reset (clear) the Archive bit. |
| EXE | FileBoss considers files with the following extensions to be executable files: .EXE, .COM, .DLL, .DRV, .OCX and .BAT. |
| Newer | FileBoss will compare the two file times and warn if the file on the target drive is newer (had been modified more recently) than the source file. |
This option is only present when the warnings are being used for copy or move operations (i.e. not for deleting or touching as there is no 'source' file).
Setting New File Attributes
These options affect files created or overwritten by the copy or move operation.
(Note that a file is considered new even if it overwrites an existing file of the same name.)
You can add, remove or leave the four attributes unchanged.
If an attribute is marked as No Change it will be set to the same setting on the source file or folder.
Specifying Dates and Times of New Files
These options affect files created or overwritten by a copy or move operation.
(Note that a file is considered new even if it overwrites an existing file of the same name.)
There are three options:
| Original | The copied / moved file and folders will have the same file times as the original files |
| Now | All new and overwritten files will have their file times set to the time the copy / move operation began. |
| Specified | All new and overwritten files will have their file times set to the time specified in the date and time fields immediately below these three option buttons. |
Special Notes:
| • | All three file times - Created, Last Accessed and Last Modified - are set by these options. |
| • | Frequently the file times of the copied files will not exactly match those of the original files or of the time specified. When this happens it is because how Windows stores file times depends on the Version of Windows and on the underlying file system of the storage media, e.g. NTFS and FAT. Just as one example some systems store access times to the nearest two seconds others to the nearest day. So In that case when a file is copied from the former to the latter, the access time will be rounded down to midnight of the day. Then, when the file times are compared they will be different. FileBoss can account for this difference by setting the resolution of file times when in compare mode. |
Removing the Archive Flag from Original File
Remove Archive Bit from Source Files
Clears the Archive flag from the source file. When the Archive flag is cleared it indicates to some programs that the file has not changed since it was last backed up.
More about Archive Bits
The archive bit indicates that a file has been changed. This attribute for a file is set by Windows whenever a file is modified by either Windows or a program such as a Word processor or paint program. Backup programs often use this attribute to determine what files need to be backup and, after backing up the file reset (clear) the Archive bit.
Ref: HIDD_COPY_FILES_DROP
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