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Advanced Notes

These notes cover behavior that matters during unusual or failed operations.

File Transfers

Local Copy (F5) and Move (F6) prepare the whole transfer and ask about known filename conflicts before changing files. Large selections can take time to prepare; you can cancel while waiting.

After preparation, items are processed in order. Cancelling before transfers start leaves files unchanged. Cancelling later does not undo completed copies or moves. Missing destination folders are created only after preparation succeeds.

If an item fails, choose Yes to skip it, Yes to all to skip later errors without asking, or Abort. After Yes to all, one summary lists the skipped errors at the end.

Local Copies

  • A copy is completed in temporary space beside the destination before it is published. Keep enough free space for the new file.
  • Overwriting links and merging folders through directory links are refused.
  • If a Windows replacement error reports a recovery file, keep it until you have checked the destination.

Local Moves

  • Within the same drive, Move normally changes the item's location without copying its contents.
  • Between drives, each file is copied successfully before its original is deleted. If copying fails, that original stays in place.

Archives

  • To add local files to an archive, copy them, verify the archive, then delete the originals. Moving them directly into an archive is disabled.
  • Moving between different archive formats is not supported.
  • Moving out of an archive, or between archives of the same format, verifies copied data before deleting the source and may need extra time and space.

See the archive guide, file-system link behavior and the Core plug-in's detailed local transfer and archive transfer documentation.