option drag to duplicate naming sequence

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option drag to duplicate naming sequence

Lately, when duplicating files and folders by option-dragging, the finder has been failing to name the duplicates correctly. It should be incrementing the number after the space but it seems to be bugged and rather than incrementing, it keeps adding another "space" and "2". The screenshot shows a folder containing rounds of revisions where I used to use this functionality but now it has stopped working.

I have tried relaunching finder, restarting the computer, and updating the os.

iMac Pro, macOS High Sierra (10.13.3)

Posted on Mar 5, 2018 8:54 AM

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siliconjones

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Mar 18, 2018 4:46 PM in response to Bkitko10

The new file naming structure is ridiculous. This was a tone deaf change. Anyone at Apple that thought this was an improvement on the older naming convention for duplicates has no idea how real users use the operating system.

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Mar 19, 2018 4:53 PM in response to Bkitko10

Should function like you detailed. That is the most logical way. With High Sierra they changed it and now it adds the numeral 2 to the end duplicate file.

It was better before. Apple screwed It up. Like I said some developer with no idea how people actually use the software.

Major hiccup in my workflow.

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Old Toad

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Mar 19, 2018 5:17 PM in response to Bkitko10

If you select the item you want to duplicate and use the key combination of Command(⌘)+D you'll get incremental, sequential copy numbers. The only downside is that "copy" is added to the file name.

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Bkitko10 Author

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Mar 18, 2018 7:59 PM in response to siliconjones

So how does it work?

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