Move images to recycle bin before convert

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Move images to recycle bin before convert

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Option "Move images to recycle bin before convert" - enabled by default. For Batch Convert, maybe also for Batch Rename and other actions...

Users should backup their images, but they don't do it, so xnview could do it automatically for them.
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Re: Move images to recycle bin before convert

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Dreamer wrote:Option "Move images to recycle bin before convert" - enabled by default. For Batch Convert, maybe also for Batch Rename and other actions...

Users should backup their images, but they don't do it, so xnview could do it automatically for them.
Good idea. I guess moving images to recycle bin when converting is only needed in case that original files are overwritten - right?
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Re: Move images to recycle bin before convert

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helmut wrote:Good idea. I guess moving images to recycle bin when converting is only needed in case that original files are overwritten - right?
Yes - if "Overwrite" is set to "replace" or "ask > yes" or option "Delete original" is enabled.

I think such behavior should be default in Windows (and all Windows programs), since if I delete file, it's moved to bin, but if I move and replace file, original file is deleted automatically.
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Re: Move images to recycle bin before convert

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Dreamer wrote:
helmut wrote:Good idea. I guess moving images to recycle bin when converting is only needed in case that original files are overwritten - right?
Yes - if "Overwrite" is set to "replace" or "ask > yes" or option "Delete original" is enabled.

I think such behavior should be default in Windows (and all Windows programs), since if I delete file, it's moved to bin, but if I move and replace file, original file is deleted automatically.
I'll add it in 1.82
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Re: Move images to recycle bin before convert

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xnview wrote:
Dreamer wrote:
helmut wrote:Good idea. I guess moving images to recycle bin when converting is only needed in case that original files are overwritten - right?
Yes - if "Overwrite" is set to "replace" or "ask > yes" or option "Delete original" is enabled.

I think such behavior should be default in Windows (and all Windows programs), since if I delete file, it's moved to bin, but if I move and replace file, original file is deleted automatically.
I'll add it in 1.82
Think that'll be good. :-)
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Re: Move images to recycle bin before convert

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helmut wrote:
xnview wrote:
Dreamer wrote: Yes - if "Overwrite" is set to "replace" or "ask > yes" or option "Delete original" is enabled.

I think such behavior should be default in Windows (and all Windows programs), since if I delete file, it's moved to bin, but if I move and replace file, original file is deleted automatically.
I'll add it in 1.82
Think that'll be good. :-)
No, great. :wink: