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20020214-I on Win2K with new Team 2.0 and new workspace. In Navigator, select a file (I selected .classpath_win32 in SWT project) Pop up menu, select Copy. Normally, this creates a file called "Copy of .classpath_win32", but in this new build, nothing is created. I checked the file system - nothing there either. It's like I never selected Copy from the menu or something. I tried it several times. I also tried it with a file that did not begin with '.' i.e. about.html. Nothing. No copies. I got someone else to try it in their 20020214-I build (without Team 2.0). Nothing there either. Looks like this is broken for Navigator. Works ok in Packages view.
You can copy in the Navigator. It now uses the OS clipboard for better integration with 3'rd party tools and behaves the same as the file explorer. See the 2.0 plan for details on this item.
Carolyn was caught by our change to clipboard based copy/paste. An interesting case she raised was copying a file to the same folder (something she does frequently). This requires: 1) Select file > Copy 2) Select folder > Paste 3) Rename to a meaningful name (instead of Copy of X) There are two things we should consider: 1) Enable paste if a file is selected, we just paste to the file's folder. Although this is different than MS Explorer it is consistent with our New>File behavior with a file selected. 2) When copying to the same directory we could offer a rename dialog to verify the copy name for each file (with a just go ahead and use the default for all option).
Reopened to address Randy's comments
Opening a rename-like dialog on a paste conflict would be good. If copying Fred.txt to the same location, the default name could be "Copy of Fred.txt" to provide a reasonable default which does not conflict (use "Copy (2) of Fred.txt" etc. if "Copy of Fred.txt" already exists). It shouldn't just use the rename dialog though. It should have a different title and message indicating a duplicate file.
Also, the new copy should be selected and revealed (in the non-conflict case too).
To avoid confusion similar to Carolyn's, for 1.0 users who will be surprised when they don't get feedback on Copy, we could pop up a dialog explaining the change (this would be a good use of "don't show me this again").
Please see also: http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=6178
Implemented item 1) in my comment below (paste is enabled for file selection - if all selected files have the same parent)
Paste to same directory now offers rename
