Dolphin (file manager) renaming other files when copying a file
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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dolphin (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I opened Dolphin in a directory with a lot of large (video) files. I then created another Dolphin window of another directory (on the same file system.) I proceeded to move files from one to the other. Because the pop-up menu gets old quickly I held down Shift to make sure I got move behaviour without the pop-up.
Expected Result: The file "old/A.mp4" is moved to "new/".
Actual Result: The file "old/A.mp4" is correctly moved to "new/A.mp4"
But in addition, some random "old/B.mp4" has been silently renamed "old/A.mp4"
This happened twice. I've "refreshed" dolphin and it seems the change is real in the filesystem, not just an error in the display.
I believe this is a serious bug, as it has result in data loss (ie the file B has lost its name)
Workaround: just use the pop-up menu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
Release: 18.04
dolphin:
Installed: 4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1 500
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
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Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) reached end-of- standard- support on May 31, 2023.
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