When copying, detect files with same content but different names

[Phil-ganchev]

When copying or moving files from one directory to another, it is very often useful to know if there are identical files in the destination directory, albeit under different names. This should not be done by default, but using a "paste special" operation that could be placed as a menu entry that opens a dialog with the check box "Check for destination files with identical content"; later, other check boxes can be added.

If files with identical content are found, open a dialog letting the user skip the file, rename the file, or cancel the whole copy operation. This dialog would be similar to the Replace File dialog and maybe it can be integrated with it.

[Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan)]

Marking as Wishlist as this is not a bug but a feature request.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654699