I have a laptop and a desktop, and a USB 3.0 stick. I work with big project files regularly and I sometimes have to copy work from my desktop to my laptop whenever I work outside my home. I copy the project to my USB to transfer it between my PCs (and to keep a backup).
From what I've observed, when you start the copying process (with many files), Windows runs through all files while copying, and then eventually asks you if you want to replace the files in the destination folder (which I always want to do, since I update files as I work). What I don't understand, is why Windows doesn't ask me this before it starts copying. At least if I have a large quantity of files to transfer (I know Windows knows how many files it is).
I've many times before started a large file-transfer either from or to the USB (which usually would take ~30 minutes or more), and then left the PC to copy on its own, only to return 30 minutes later and find the process paused at 15%, with Windows waiting to know if it should replace the files or not.
Would not it be more efficient to just ask me in the beginning, regardless of whether there's any files with the same name in the destination folder? Or does Microsoft not want Windows to ask unnecessary questions in any given case? (In the case there wasn't any files to replace.)
I've searched on Google to see if anyone had had the same problem, or if it turned out there was a way to change this in some settings somewhere. But to no avail. Is this fixable?
I'm on Windows 10, but I had this problem back in 8.1, and I believe the other Windows versions might be doing somewhat the same thing (so I'm posting it here and not on the Windows 10 subreddit)
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