Build 456 deletion quirk

[Tom]

...Actually, it's more of a quirk with the dialog than the deletion itself. When you select specific files and/or folders and hit the delete key, the dialog appears set to basically not do anything.

The screenshot's from a session where I was deleting empty folders during a compare. You'll see that the right side should come up checked, but does not.

[JohnFLand]

What's your Tweak setting for File Operations|Confirm file delete|Require explicit side selection in Delete dialog?

[Tom]

What's your Tweak setting for File Operations|Confirm file delete|Require explicit side selection in Delete dialog?

Good catch, John -- thanks! Definitely a deviation from the existing BC behavior, so it didn't even occur to me that it could be an option.

I guess that begs the question whether the side selection should default to unselected. It's easy enough to alter the confirmation dialog if the selection is different than the intent, but I think we can safely say that you'd never intentionally hit the delete key and not want at least one side to be checked.

[JohnFLand]

The default for me when I first installed BC3 was to mimic BC2 behavior re deletion; I don't know if the default has since been changed.

[Zoë]

The default is the same as BC2's. If you have the tweak set in BC3 then you must have had it set in BC2 and imported your settings.

[JohnFLand]

OK, but I didn't even know this particular option existed in BC2.

[Tom]

The default is the same as BC2's. If you have the tweak set in BC3 then you must have had it set in BC2 and imported your settings.

I didn't realize that. It's entirely possible I mistakenly checked the box, then, without understanding what it meant. Normally I'm more careful than that.

Thanks for the info, Craig & JohnFLand!