Bug 264416 – gnome-base/nautilus-2.24.2: lost of a file during a copy to replace its parent folder

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Christophe 2009-03-31 17:15:55 UTC]

Nautilus-2.24.2

In a folder named "test", you have a file with same name "test". If you cut the file and paste it one level above to replace the folder (its own parent), ask to replace, the operation failed and you loose both the folder and the file.

Although the operation is a bit stupid but you should never loose a file in a cut and paste operation.

I assumed that the "Cut" operation had the file placed in "buffer" and therefore I could replace the now empty folder with that file. 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a folder "test"
2. in that folder create a file "test"
3. cut the file (ctrl-X)
4. go up one level
5. paste the file (ctrl-V)
6. confirm the replacement


Actual Results:  
The operation to replace folder by file failed, both the folder and the file are lost.

Expected Results:  
If the operation failed, the file/folder should not be destroyed.
or
The operation succeed and the file replace the folder

Portage 2.1.6.7 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.26-gentoo-r4 x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.26-gentoo-r4-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_4200+-with-glibc2.2.5
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:20:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.7
dev-lang/python:     2.5.2-r7
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8
dev-util/cmake:      2.4.8
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirrors.tera-byte.com/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo "
LANG="C"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/local/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/layman/sabayon /usr/local/layman/hollow /usr/local/layman/vmware /usr/local/overlays/portage /usr/local/overlays/edma"
SYNC="rsync://192.168.10.140/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 acpi alsa amd64 apache2 applet audacious automount avahi bash-completion berkdb blas branding bzip2 cairo caps cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib cups daap dbus divx dri dvd dvdr dvdread dvi emboss emerald encode evo fam fbcondecor ffmpeg fftw firefox flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimp glitz glut gmedia gnome gpm gsf gstreamer gtk hal hddtemp iconv isdnlog jpeg lapack libburn libnotify lm_sensors mad matroska midi mikmod mmkeys mmx mng mono mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql nautilus ncurses network nfs nonfsv4 nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg ole openal opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl plotutils png ppds pppd pygrub python qt4 quicktime readline realmedia reflection samba screen sdl sensord server session skins slang smp sourceview spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification stream svg sysfs syslog tcpd theora threads thunderbird tiff totem truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 vnc vorbis wma wmp wxwindows x264 xine xml xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa fbdev"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2009-05-14 22:43:14 UTC]

this doesn't sound like a gentoo specific problem. Could you report this upstream and paste the URL here, thanks.

[Comment 2 Christophe 2009-10-22 19:40:58 UTC]

Was fixed at some point... nautilus-2.26.4 does not allow the operation and both file and folder are now kept.

[Comment 3 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2009-10-22 20:09:03 UTC]

since 2.26.4 is now stable, I think we can close this fixed then. Thanks for reporting.