nautilus fails without warning to copy/move files if the containing directory is renamed

[Rocko]

Binary package hint: nautilus

1. Create a folder 'test'. Initialise it by copying several files into it. (They should ideally be large files, eg 100 MB or more, or the operation occurs too quickly to observe the problem.)

2. Select the files in the folder and choose copy and then paste.

3. While the copy operation is in progress, renamed the containing folder 'test' to 'test1'.

4. The file currently being copied completes, and then the 'Copying...' window disappears. There is no indication that the other files failed to copy.

This also occurs during a move operation, ie between different physical drives because otherwise the move operation is too fast for you to rename the containing folder. In this case, none of the original files are removed at step 4 even though some of them may be 'moved'.

Although no data loss is involved, there should really be an indication to the user that the operation failed. At the moment it seems as though everything has completed successfully.

I reproduced this in the latest Ubuntu 7.10, using nautilus version 1:2.20.0-0ubuntu7.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

This isn't reproducible with Hardy and it works fine, it now trow a message saying "Error while copying - There was an error getting information about the files in the folder". Feel free to re open this report is you can reproduce it later on with Hardy, thanks.