on incorrect permissions dialog "cancel" acts like "skip" (asks the same question for the next item)

[Samuel Cormier-Iijima]

Hi,
I have a mounted VFAT partition which is umask=022. As a normal user I don't have permissions to delete files, but when I select multiple files and choose to delete, cancel and skip apparently do the same thing. Basically there's no way to abort the action except clicking on skip or cancel numerous times. I'm guessing cancel should completely cancel the operation and skip should just skip the file. The behavior is normal on ext2/3 partitions, so I'm not sure where the problem is? Thanks :-)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. What version of Ubuntu do you use?

[Samuel Cormier-Iijima (sciyoshi)]

Sorry about that, I'm using Dapper with Nautilus 2.14.1

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue is not FAT specific, I've commented on an upstream bug about that: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341597

[Andrew Keyes (akeyes)]

I can confirm this with Nautilus 2.18.1 in Ubuntu 7.04. I experienced it when accidentally trying to delete 300 files on a mounted ssh directory (Mounted using Places -> Connect to server).

[RoAblate (ro-ablate)]

I can confirm this is still a problem with the LiveCD 7.10 beta.

One minor point to add - I was seeing another dialog box, with a cancel button, underneath the error dialog box.
But the user can not get to it. It is greyed out and the button is inactive.

While admittedly I don't do UI programming, this seems like a simple bug to kill - don't have the error dialog box block user access to the other dialog box's button so they can cancel the whole operation. You can still require them to handle the error box response too, if it is too much of a pain to cancel it automatically.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you try if that's still an issue in hardy or intrepid?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue seems resolved in the current version