Firefox/Nautilus losing mtime stamp on file copy to folder
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gvfs |
Fix Released
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Medium
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glib2.0 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
gvfs (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
Under 7.10 and Firefox 2, there was a behavior available where an image could be dragged and dropped from a website, not all but some websites, to a folder displayed by Nautilus or the Desktop and the filename and last modified time stamp were preserved in the copy. Since upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04 and Firefox 3 the filename is still preserved but the last modified time stamp is now updated to the current system time.
If one uses wget to retrieve the file the last modified time stamp is preserved, which indicates that the remote mtime time stamp is still accessible, but this is a poor backup to what used to be a simple drag and drop operation.
As an example http://
You may not believe me but I swear these were preserved in the Ubuntu 7.10 with Firefox 2.
Addition: As a result of other discussions, I installed Ubuntu 7.10 on a spare machine and confirmed that the last modified time stamps were being preserved in this drag and drop operation. I also installed the Ubuntu 7.10 available Firefox 3.0 alpha and find the last modified time stamps are still preserved. I haven't found a Nautilus 2.22.3 backported to 7.10 to continue the test to see if the timestamps are lost when Nautilus 2.22.3 is introduced into the situation. I might have to go back to the Nautilus website and get the tar.gz and try to install it but that will be when I have some more time to devote to this.
Further addition: I have also installed FIrefox 2 on my Ubuntu 8.10 machine so I can be certain that under Ubuntu 7.10 with Nautilus 2.20.0 mtime stamps are preserved when copying a file from Firefox 2 or 3 to a Nautilus folder and that these same mtime stamps are lost when using Firefox 2 or 3 to copy a file to a Nautilus folder in Nautilus 2.22.3 under Ubuntu 8.04.
Last edit: Sorry to trouble everyone. We'll just call this a horrible mistake and I'll ask that someone cancel any further action on it. I can't find a cancelled status to give it.
Related branches
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in firefox: | |
assignee: | nobody → ken-poole |
status: | New → Invalid |
description: | updated |
Changed in gvfs: | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in gvfs: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
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importance: | Unknown → Medium |
Sorry, Steve, don't know how this got here. I marked it invalid for you.