# REQUEST: confirmation message for moving files

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-confirmation-message-for-moving-files/19160
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [July 19, 2017, 10:19am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-confirmation-message-for-moving-files/19160 "2017-07-19T10:19:06Z")
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### Author: ![Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/zerow/32/11379_2.png) [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2017, 11:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-confirmation-message-for-moving-files/19160/4 "2017-07-19T11:43:01Z")

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> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> I am not really sure how much feedback one needs for such a function.  
> After you have selected one of the functions (and you are not really sure what you did), you get a folder selection dialogue with a dialogue title that either says  
> "Copy to:"  
> or  
> "Move to:"

- When I am laying on a bed reading a book and at the same time going through my music, it is hard for me to see from afar what exactly was chosen
- You cannot see what file?
- That I can see as I have it selected and thus highlighted horizontally and / or I can click it once again to be played just to be sure and on top of that usually I also have some kind of filter expression pasted in the filter box
- So you cannot see what option you selected, move or copy?
- That's it, that I can hardly see
- So why don't you just get up every time, adjust the screen so that it will be suited for the working position, sit down in front of the screen and then choose move or copy; and then revert the screen and yourself to the previous positions?
- That is a great idea!
- Or alternatively why don't you stop reading books?
- That is also a great great idea!
- Or why don't you just stop listening to music?
- That is the most greatest great idea, great idea, great great great!!!

> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> You then have to browse through the folder tree to find the target folder.  
> And then you have to click on the button at the bottom "Select folder" or double-click.  
> And all the time you see the dialogue title that describes the function.  
> Oh, well...

Oh, well... how about if someone copies 90% of the time to the same folder and moves 80% of the time to the same folder? But because of those 10-20% cases that need a change, things can get mixed up all the time, especially under a heavy workload?

Apparently this [Schoolboy Error](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/17257/6) was not joke but a statement, as you have to be robot to not make mistakes

> [@ryerman](#):
>
> If you have an automobile, please surrender your driving license.  
> After all, the brake pedal and gas pedal are next to each other and you might accidentally use the wrong one. 😉

Ha ha ha how funny [https://youtu.be/vCz7wN\_qtog?t=1m11s](https://youtu.be/vCz7wN_qtog?t=1m11s) a child almost got run over

If I didn't have constant empirical data coming out from the problem with adjacent actions, I would probably hesitate to bring such request up. But I have, so I do not

Put your telephone somewhere near your mouse. And see how many times you will put your hand on the phone instead on the mouse, after stopping writing on the keyobard with your hands; that is if you are not distracted by anyone or anything and sit in the exact same position and thus do not move at all

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