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Question: Why do we need so many 'restore' options?

Open sputnik-1 opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

Reading through the docs, I see there are 4 different restore options:

  • Restore Restore the selected files or folders to the original destination.
  • Restore to... Restore the selected files or folders to a new destination.
  • Restore ‘/path’ Restore the currently shown folder and all its content to the original destination.
  • Restore ‘/path’ to... Restore the currently shown folder and all its content to a new destination.

To make things simpler are not "Restore" and "Restore to..." also enough to handle the "Restore '/path' " and "Restore '/path' to..." options?

What is the difference if I use the "Restore" option or the "Restore '/path' " option, and choose a directory and restore it?

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sputnik-1 avatar Jun 18 '21 17:06 sputnik-1

Haven't tried it, but iirc, Restore /path restores only one of the multiple directories or subdirectories instead of the whole backup. Though yes, maybe instead of four different options you could just have a menu asking where you want to restore to and if you want a full or partial restore.

8070alejandro avatar Jul 11 '21 19:07 8070alejandro

Thanks for your reply @8070

sputnik-1 avatar Jul 11 '21 22:07 sputnik-1