nautilus does not preserve directory ownership when moving to another partition

[Rocko]

Binary package hint: nautilus

If you use nautilus to move a directory to another volume, nautilus does not preserve its ownership.

eg.

1. Run sudo nautilus so the nautilus user is root.

2. With this nautilus, cut and paste a directory owned by the normal user 1000 (eg rocko) to another partition. In my case, I was copying the folder from my home partition on an ext4 drive to an external USB drive (also ext4).

3. Check the ownership of the directory on the other partition.

The expected result is that user 1000 still owns the directory, but the actual result is that root owns it.

Files within the directory are still owned by user 1000. Also, if you move it to the same partition (eg from /home/rocko to /home), the directory is still owned by user 1000.

This is also a problem in Jaunty.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 23 09:17:38 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: nautilus 1:2.27.4-0ubuntu6
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-6.25-generic
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-6-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, the bug is one that needs to be send directly upstream to: http://bugzilla.gnome.org , forwarding instructions are available at: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME , Thanks in advance.

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593342

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

awesome, thanks you Rocko.