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Stop appending " copy" automatically to file names during 'Save and Replace'

Stop appending " copy" automatically to file names during 'Save and Replace'

...and please just issue the standard overwrite warning to the user if they attempt to leave the name as-is.  Forcing the user to use the keyboard to manually erase " copy" from the end of every filename is such a pedantic waste of time, especially given that:

 

1. We're purposefully inside the Save-and-Replace dialog, and probably already know exactly how we want to tweak the part/filename and have no need to have " copy" suggested unhelpfully for us.

2. Everyone already knows the convention of the standard overwrite warning during Save-As and is used to handling that pop-up message.

 

But especially:

 

3. We're all human... and inclined to forget that the " copy" is there becuase it is only added when you've last Saved-and-Replaced in the same directory as the original file, leading to uneccesary filesname disorder when we've got " copy" appended to parts in our filestructure.

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Anonymous
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I totally agree. I always rename and often forget to delete 'copy' . I then end up repeating the procedure then having to go in Explorer and delete the 'copy' version. Get rid of it please, a rename prompt would be ideal and the accepted standard.

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