[Aabh]

I was fine with small interruptions from the UAC, but it prompts me when I move documents from one folder to another... and recently I have been consolidating all of my files over the years from a number of old hard drives (Sometimes the Hard drives are dying in the process-They are very,very old)... It's a massive job (I've been a graphic artist and a photographer for almost 20 years), and it involves a lot of copying files into consolidation areas, and finding the same files and deleting the out of date files, which must be done with absolute care (Because there is no backup while I'm doing this-The size of this project means that I cannot back it up in stages, it has to be done on the fly). I've put in probably 40 or so hours into the project, and UAC has added probably an extra three or so hours to the process, not unacceptable, just annoying (Which I can live with). What is prompting me to disable it, however, is the fact that it seems to be overriding the "You already have a copy of XYZ" prompt... you accept the UAC challenge to allow the copy to go through, then it replaces any duplicate files without so much as batting an eye. I actually didn't catch on to this until I copied photos into a consolidated photo bin and noticed that the number of files in the folder did not increase... which meant it copied all 455 pictures into the folder (All of them duplicates) and didn't prompt me at all for the duplicate files... it did, however, challenge me for UAC. I have no idea if those copied pictures were newer, older or modified... and now it's too late. So, UAC may have protected me from accidentally installing something on my computer, but the trade off was a loss of work that cannot be replaced. That's a pretty steep price to pay.