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Dealing with already existing destination #30
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Indeed that would be good to propose some alternatives. Overwriting would probably be what users would expect as this is how most posix tools work. However any overwrite or even renaming to something else shouldn't be automatic as that could cause a big mess if hundreds of files are involved. Perhaps we should still display the current error message, but below ask the user what they want to do. |
If we have a long list of files to be processed, always asking the user on each file can be tedious so I propose options, based on @dufferzafar suggestions. A new config option like
I agree that it should still show the error/warning message on each file, so we could output massren's output to file (will this work? |
Hi. Is there any solution for this problem? |
Currently, massren doesn't deal with already existing files and throws up an error:
There could be multiple strategies for dealing with such cases:
For me, option # 1 is the most used one, but # 3 sounds sane too.
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