[Thunar-dev] overwriting files and the trash

[Benedikt Meurer]

Jens Luedicke wrote:
>>I'm really unhappy with how most filemanagers
>>handle merging of folders anyway. Either the filemanager should
>>1) overwrite the _entire_ folder (and that _does_ mean trashing the old
>>one) or
> 
> I think that is how OS X is doing it.
> 
> Personally I think files and folders inside the trash can be overwritten.
> or just appended with a number (automatically).

Files and folders in the trash cannot be overwritten.

> Jens

Benedikt