I haven't said that means the files are the same.
They can indeed be different. It just asks you to confirm that you really want overwrite one version with the another.

hi,
thanks for your answer.
Absolutely this is NOT the case.
I see that these files are different in size and
Location. If you were right they should have been
the same size.
They have the same name, as I mentioned.

martin wrote:

It's overwrite confirmation prompt. Just press "Yes to All" or disable confirmation prompt altogether.

It's overwrite confirmation prompt. Just press "Yes to All" or disable confirmation prompt altogether.

Hello,
I want to backup a large folder from Linux to windows.
I cannot make a zip file from this large
folder as I don't have enough space of Linux for it (I got an error of insufficient disk space).

When I try to copy this folder with to windows with WinSCP (By F5, not by drag and drop)
I get the following error:
...
Local file ipt_ECN.c aleardy exists.Overwrite ?
New: 4671 bytes.
... Existing: 3261 bytes.

with different type stamps
and Yes/No/Cancel/Append... buttons.

Indeed I have different copies of this
file under different paths under the folder
which I copy. But why is this error ?

I have WinScp 4.2.6;

I looked under options->preferences->Transfer
I had there in
Maximal number of transfers at the same time = 2

I changed it to 1 , and I had again
the same problem.

Any idea?

rgs,
Kevin