What text (in English) should I use when asking the user to overwrite a document?

Question

I write a lot of applications in C# and I'm trying to sew up some holes in my standard practices.

Specifically, I'm trying to decide on the best text to use in a message box, and I thought I'd ask the StackOverflow community since I believe that many opinions are always better than one.

What I have currently is:

"Document XXX.docx already exists. Okay to overwrite?"

Buttons for; Yes, No and Cancel

I'm really interested to see which examples turn out to be the most popular.

There are no limits on the style used; formal, casual, humourous, etc. All suggestions are welcome. Aim to err safely within political correctness though.

On a small side note: It would also be great, but by no means essential, to consider that the same text could also be suitable for a command line program.

Please note: English language only please. For other languages, please raise a new question.

Answer 1

Personally, I like to see a bit more context and slightly different wording. Something like:

"<existing document name>" already exists in "<destination path>".
Would you like to replace it (Y/N)?

or perhaps with even more information:

"<existing document name>" (<bytes>) (<date modified>) already exists in
"<destination path>".
Would you like to replace it with file of size <new bytes>, last modified
<new date modified> (Y/N)?

I think "replace" is a bit more clear than "overwrite" - and (speculation) may translate into other languages, and maintain the intended meaning more often.

...and one last option with new file name/location info:

"<existing document name>" (<bytes>) (<date modified>) already exists in
"<destination path>".
Would you like to replace it with file "<new file name>" in "<new path>" of 
size <new bytes>, last modified <new date modified> (Y/N)?

This last one would probably just show a temp file / buffer location for an initial file save--but it is reusable, and more meaningful when doing a file copy.

Hope you find one of these useful.

Cheers, Hans

Answer 2

Title: Overwrite?

"XXX.docx exists. 
Would you like to overwrite XXX.docx?"

Buttons: Overwrite, Keep, Panic

Answer 3

Simple solutions are usually best, for example windows user might find it familiar to see a message :

He has 3 options :

• Replace
• Abort action x3
• Create with a new name