[SOLVED] Dolphin: copying/moving/overwriting files

[Eggdog]

This is about Dolphin, and it may be more a KDE question than a Mageia one. I hope I'm in the right place, anyway.

I have a file -- an Emacs abbreviation expander that lives in my home directory -- that I often modify and copy between my different workplaces. When I copy a newer version onto an older one, I get a dialog box that says:

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File already exists
This action will overwrite the destination.

Followed by (sometimes)

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Warning, the destination file is newer

and then

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           Source                       Destination
/home/eddie/share/.abbrev_defs   /home/eddie/.abbrev_defs

Then there is a little graphic representing a text file. Next to the little graphic is a scrollbar, and if I move the scrollbar I can read the details (name, date modified, size) which are stored under the little graphic (which I don't really need).

Dolphin is in all other respects a delightful file manager. But when this dialog box pops up, I'd really dig for it to be big enough to look at the dates and sizes of the files without having to use scrollbars. Is it possible to tweak some setting in Dolphin to make it work that way?

Thanks.

[dbg]

Resize your "File Already Exists" window to the size you want then open the "menu" button in the top left of the window. Choose "Advanced" then "Special Window Settings...". On the "Geometry" tab enable "Size" and change "Do Not Affect" to "Remember". Your window will now open at that size.

[Eggdog]

Thanks; that worked perfectly!