![]() ![]() In my opinion, if you view these two buttons through the eyes of a completely new FileBot user, their labels are quite ambiguous.Īpple went with "Overwrite" and "Replace:", vs "Cancel" "Continue" in this context just leaves the user needing to experiment with it to see what it does! On the other hand, "Skip" would unequivocally tell the user that no action will be taken for a given conflict. "Continue" doesn't actually make it clear that the conflict is being skipped.ĭoes it mean "Continue but don't replace the original file" or "Continue and do replace the original file"? A (new) user can't really be sure. What's wrong with "Continue" anyway? Good question!Īs the other option is labelled "override" instead of "overwrite", someone looking at it for the first time (such as me last week) would be unclear what "Continue" does too. My suggestion would be for more intuitive labels: Overwrite vs Skip: The current (ambiguous) labels: Override vs Continue: Sure, I know what that option does now, but only because of my experimentation and reading documentation - no thanks to the label on the button itself. What's being "overridden" here? Am I missing something? The label "Override" when the function is "Overwrite" totally threw me off! When I first saw these buttons a few days ago, it was only through research and experimentation that I realized that this is an "Overwrite" button. ![]() Surely, this is an act of overWRITing, rather than of overRIDing? These words sound similar but they're not interchangeable!Īs a new FileBot user who is looking at FileBot with a fresh set of eyes, this feels like it's perhaps not the best choice of words for this option. overWRITE) an original file with another one of the same name. ![]() The function of the "Override" button is to replace (i.e. ![]()
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