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Enhancement: Prompt to overwrite previosly extracted folder rather than create folder-1 folder-2 folder-3... #837

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Non-saavy users often download and extract the same file multiple times, as in 
foobar-folder.zip, "foobar-folder (1).zip", "foobar-folder (2).zip"...

The problem of multiple identical downloads can be fixed by a chrome plugin 
which overwrites rather than numbering subsequent identically named downloads:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/downloads-overwrite-exist/fkomnceojfhf
kgjgcijfahmgeljomcfk?hl=en-US

It would be nice for theunarchiver to have a similar option to overwrite a 
previously extracted foobar-folder, rather than create duplicate(s) 
"foobar-folder-1", foobar-folder-2, etc. Some sort of setting like:

If destination item already exists: (A.) prompt to overwrite. (B.) overwrite 
without warning, (C.) append a number to the destination (item-1).  Right now 
it seems C is the default behavior. I may take a look at code to see about 
adding A and B options.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by roizengr...@gmail.com on 25 Jun 2015 at 10:44

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
The Unarchiver aims to be as streamlined as possible, so this has been 
intentionally designed this way.

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 20 Jul 2015 at 9:56