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Hi, Chad -- nice to see you here and, as I've said elsewhere, I'm quite sorry you lost your archive folder.
From a design perspective, a classic problem when there are multiple solutions available for a given task -- like "Backup" or "Copying" or whatever -- is that extensive experience with one can sometimes set up assumptions for the others. It's difficult to put wording that breaks through that. After the fact, it can seem that one phrase would have made it clearer -- but without getting back in the original midset, it's really hard to know what would have worked. Of course, it's awful that you lost data, and again I'm sorry it was unclear to you. The What's going to happen? section, in the screen shot, doesn't say "THE BACKUP DRIVE WILL BE ERASED" because it won't be. That's what "Erase, then copy" does. Instead, it says: Quote:
We then repeat this -- without the leading text, to "unbury" it and emphasize the action -- in the warning that comes up when you click "Copy". For those who might read the User's Guide, I also give an explicit example of this case on page 42: Quote:
Thanks for the post and -- again -- sorry for your trouble.
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