unable to move files across file systems from desktop

[Jane Silber]

I have my trash on a separate file system from my desktop. When I select an icon on the desktop and try to delete it with the delete key, I get an error msg about "not on the same filesystem" and am asked if I want to continue. The options presented are Cancel and Retry. If I delete the file by dragging it to the wastebasket, it is all fine.

So,

- as a minor issue, if in fact moving files across file systems is something that users shouldn't be able to do implicitly, this should probably be a warning, not an error (I'm filing a related bug on the question of whether this can be an implicit action)

- more importantly, it asks if I would like to continue. Suppose I do want to continue. The best I can do is select Retry, which tries to do the same thing and generates the same error message. If I acknowledge the error message and explicitly say I want to continue, it should allow the operation to continue, but currently does not

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. Is that on dapper? Do you still have that issue? On my box it says that the file can't be moved to the crash and that it's going to be deleted instead and ask what to do. If you still have the issue could you describe your configuration (filesystem used, is Desktop a separate partition mounted, a nfs share, ...)?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The other bug you filled had some hints about that. Doing a "ln -s some_path_on_other_partition .Trash" gives the same message you described

That's the same issue than upstream http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309592

bug #6312 and bug #26633 are about the same issue, marking as duplicate of the second

[Jane Silber (silbs)]

This could be the same underlying bug as the ones referenced above, but the behaviour I am describing is slightly different (I think). it at least provides different error msgs.

I see this behaviour in up-to-date Dapper (as of 27 mar 06).

My Trash is a symlink in my home directory which leads to a FAT partition.

If I have a file on my desktop, select it, and then press the "Delete" key, I get the "not on the same filesystem" error. The secondary aspect of this is that it gives options to Retry or Cancel. Selecting Retry doesn't actually do anything other than give the same error message again.

Note that if I select the file on the desktop with the mouse and drag and drop it into the Trash, everything works fine. It seems oddly inconsistent that I can delete by drag-and-drop, but not by selecting/pressing delete.