Allow renaming all files when copying or moving files

Bug #937054 reported by Helder
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Suppose we cut or copy 1000 files from a folder and paste them on a second folder containing among its files 500 files whose names coincide with those which are being pasted on the folder. Although the program currently detects the conflicting names and provide, for each conflicting file, the option to rename the new file to keep both in the target folder, the user will need to rename all 500 files by hand during the process, and this is very unpractical.

The option to apply the (rename) action to all files shouldn't be disabled.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report, what name would you pick for those in an automatic way?

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Incomplete
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Helder (he7d3r) wrote :

The names should be as in
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=306489
E.g.: suppose there are files named
* fileA.jpg
* fileB.jpg
* fileC.jpg
* fileC (1).jpg
* fileC (2).jpg
and the user is copying the files
* fileA.jpg
* fileB.jpg
* fileC.jpg
* fileD.jpg
to the same folder. The program already provide the option to rename "fileA.jpg" to something else, but it disable the option to rename all. If such an option were enabled it would rename the files by adding "(1)", "(2)", ... to the end of the filenames and the folder would have the following files after the operation is finished:
* fileA.jpg
* fileA (1).jpg
* fileB.jpg
* fileB (1).jpg
* fileC.jpg
* fileC (1).jpg
* fileC (2).jpg
* fileC (3).jpg
* fileD.jpg

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Helder (he7d3r) wrote :

Why is this marked as incomplete?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

That's not something Ubuntu is going to work on, it should be reported upstream instead

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Won't Fix
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Helder (he7d3r) wrote :
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