Changing character case when renaming doesn't persist

Bug #1855576 reported by Waldo
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Expired
Low
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Bug Description

Ubuntu 19.10
nautilus version: 1:3.34.1-1ubuntu1

Upon pressing F2 to rename a file, if delete one of the characters and replace it with the same character, but a different case, and you click rename, the changes should save.
Instead they get discarded

E.g. renaming foo.c -> Foo.c keeps it as foo.c instead of renaming it to Foo.c

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.34.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-24.26-generic 5.3.10
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Dec 8 11:16:24 2019
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'sidebar-width' b'187'
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'initial-size' b'(655, 700)'
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'maximized' b'true'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-10-30 (38 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Release amd64 (20190416)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_ZA:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
usr_lib_nautilus:

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Waldo (glibg10b) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. On what disk/filesystem are you doing the change? Some filesystems like vfat are not case sensitive which leads to such behaviours... on a normal ext linux partition the case is correctly preserved on my installation

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Waldo (glibg10b) wrote :

Linux is install on an ext4 partition, where the files are also located. I suspect this is nautilus-specific. mv foo Foo yields the correct results

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for nautilus (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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