Using k3b

[joneall]

I have a few problems with k3b, especially in using it to backup my home files.

(1) How do you select a range of files or directories to drag? In Windoze, I would click the first, hold down the shift key and click the last. I can't get this to work in k3b (or in other Linux windows).

(2) Dragging sub-directory by sub-directory, one quickly fills up the target window. Yet I don't want to drag one directory over an existing one in the target window, which is easily done What to do?

(3) After dragging a big directory, I get an X in a circle. Sometimes, this won't go away until I click on a "neutral" area of the window. Why?

(4) I can't remember what this one was... Damn! It'll come back to me.

Thanks.

[Rog131]

Re: Using k3b

(1) How do you select a range of files or directories to drag? In Windoze, I would click the first, hold down the shift key and click the last. I can't get this to work in k3b (or in other Linux windows).

Hmm - here dragging is working as in the windows. Tried from the konqueror to the k3b.

(2) Dragging sub-directory by sub-directory, one quickly fills up the target window. Yet I don't want to drag one directory over an existing one in the target window, which is easily done What to do?

Are you talking konqueror ? If you are copying lot of files: Have you tried krusader ?

Krusader is an advanced twin-panel (commander-style) file-manager for
KDE similar to GNU's Midnight Commander(c) or Total Commander(c)
but with many extras.