Keys Corner

The scanning of our thousands of slides continues; every day we manage another 150 – 200 slides (more if we are at home at the weekend). Every few days I copy the new ones over the WLAN from the Dell PC in the cellar where the (quite noisy) slide scanner runs, to our Macs in the first floor office. When I first wanted to copy the delta changes from the cellar to the office, I logged on the Windows 2000 PC that was doing the scanning and started a copy – this is similar to the message I saw:

If you think about it, that dialog is not very useful in this case, since it doesn’t offer me the chance of saying that the slides I already copied shouldn’t be copied again. As we already have some 6 GB of scanned data, we certainly don’t want to re-copy it over the comparatively slow wireless LAN each time. On the Mac, things are bit more user-friendly:

Spot the difference? I can tick the box saying “apply to all” for both not replacing the duplicates and for replacing them. That makes a difference of several hours to the length of time the copy-job takes!

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