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while it's probably gonna look less classic, it'd be great to have an option for "always show more details" to also include "file replace" (such as, if enabled add an extra checkbox with "include file replace dialog" or such), so more options could be activated there by default too, rather than having to do it manually each time.

in my case it's mostly for image replacing, to have it showing what image is being replaced with what image by default (to make sure i don't overwrite wrong ones while copying or moving them for example).

Which OS are you running Classic Shell on? Do you mean that when a file copy conflict occurs and the overwrite dialog is shown, you want more details to be shown automatically about the files? Windows 8 moves it one more click behind a 'Choose the files to keep' button. On Windows 7, details of conflicting files are automatically shown as there is only one dialog.

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windows 7 ultimate sp1 64 bit.


yeah, pretty much. i want to be able to see the contents of both the file i copy from and the file i copy it into without having to click that extra button each time a conflict occurs.

but since i'm sure some people won't like that, i'm asking for it to be an optional, opt in thing.

or, if possible, to make the selection persistent, so when i'm moving 200 files, i can turn it on once and keep it on for all 200 files rather than having to reactivate it each time.

this is pretty much what i mean btw.
http://i.imgur.com/SkADpe6.png
left one is how it looks normally, right how it looks after i click the button.

So basically you don't want Classic Shell to replace the Copy dialog. Then go to the Classic Explorer settings, open the File Operation tab, and uncheck "Replace file conflict dialog".

oh, i see. thanks.

not to waste space in feature requests for something that was already there, is it possible to make the 'more' setting in classic version persist while operation with more than 1 file's made?

meaning, i copy 50 files at once, 10 of them conflict, so instead of it reverting back to original each time it'd remember the setting until all of them are done, at which point it would return back to the default. in case for example i wanted to use it for pictures, but didn't for regular text files.

No, not possible. The code that replaces the dialog doesn't know if two dialogs are part of the same copy session or not.