Thunar: cut & paste through a symbolic link pointing to the same folder of the origin will cause data loss

[Luca Borrione]

1) create a folder in your home and a symbolic link pointing to it:
$ mkdir ~/orig
$ ln -sT ~/orig dest

2) create a test file in the original folder:
$ touch ~/orig/test.txt

3) open a Thunar session and go to the original folder *~/orig*, cut the test.txt file using the gui, which simply means right-click on the test.txt file and choose *cut*

4) use Thunar to go to the destination folder *~/dest*, which actually is the symbolic link poiting to the same folder of the original one, right-click and choose *paste*

5) a confirmation window will open ... choose *replace* to go on

6) a new window with an error will open but at this time the original test.txt file is already deleted, so no matter what you choose at this point.

Tested on Lubuntu 10.10 with Thunar 1.0.2

I tried other file mangers (Nautilus Elementary 2.32.2 and PCManFM 0.9.7) always on Lubuntu 10.10 and they are ok (they do not remove the original file)

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Thanks for your bug report.
I can reproduce with 1.2.2 also. I'll forward it upstream later.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

The following bug was reported a few days ago on our bugtracker:

1) create a folder in your home and a symbolic link pointing it:
$ mkdir ~/orig
$ ln -sT ~/orig dest

2) create a test file in the original folder:
$ touch ~/orig/test.txt

3) open a Thunar session and go to the original folder *~/orig*, cut the test.txt file using the gui, which simply means right-click on the test.txt file and choose *cut*

4) use Thunar to go to the destination folder *~/dest*, which actually is the symbolic link poiting to the same folder of the original one, right-click and choose *paste*

5) a confirmation window will open ... choose *replace* to go on

6) a new window with an error will open but at this time the original test.txt file is already deleted, so no matter what you choose at this point.

Tested on Lubuntu 10.10 with Thunar 1.0.2

I've been able to reproduce it with thunar 1.2.3 too.
Thanks.

[Hjudt-l (hjudt-l)]

This is still reproducible with git master.

Also, when doing action history back after the final step, thunar will crash.

[Dgorst (dgorst)]

Same error, but this time caused by cut-and-pasting desktop icons into a subfolder of Desktop.

[mirh (mirh)]

Bump, because putting aside it's always good after years (/s)
Somebody could even take advantage of this situation to check why (when asked of overwriting or not an existing file), you abort cut & paste and "cut" is no longer in memory.