[Bug 52881] Nautilus failes w/o notification when copying files with similar names to fat32.

Maimon Mons mmcmonster at hotmail.com
Thu Dec 14 00:24:55 UTC 2006


Public bug reported:

Nautilus does did not give an error message when copying two files with
similar names except for capitalization from a case-sensitive file
system (ext3) to a case-retentive file system (fat32).

This is important since many removable drives are set up as fat32 for
maximum interoperability.

To reproduce:
1. Setup 2 partitions.  Partition1 should be ext3.  Partition2 should be fat32.
2. Create 2 files in partition1 with the names filetobecopied and FileToBeCopied
3. Using nautlus, drag and drop the two files to a directory in Partition2.

Result: The first file is copied over, and nautilus silently fails to
copy the second file.

Expected result: The first file is copied over, and nautilus gives an error message with the following options:
A. Abort the copy process.
B. Overwrite the first file with the second file, continue copying any other files.
C. Give the second file a new name, continue copying any other files.

** Affects: nautilus (upstream)
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Rejected
** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Nautilus failes w/o notification when copying files with similar names to fat32.
https://launchpad.net/bugs/52881




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