Comment 37 for bug 478962

Thank you!

I see. I wondered if there might be something that's arranged so that the computer reads the operation differently, in what it recognizes as a different context, but I couldn't see how the computer could know what I was dragging-and-dropping into, since the icons look much the same to me, both having the "folder" image. I guess I was afraid there was something you had to do to tell it to copy the file before you dragged it or something.

Thank you for your reassurance. I'll do as you say, just to prove it to myself that that I can do it right, and that my computer really is as smart as you think it is!

Doris

> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:44:22 +0000
> From: <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 478962] Re: After upgrade to Karmic, CD/DVD drive no longer works
>
> Doris, what the desktop shows you is reality. If you see the files
> disappear in one window, but show up in another window, then the files
> were "moved". If you see the files in both windows after draging the
> files, then they were "copied". If you see the files completely
> disappear, then they were "deleted".
>
> There might be a slight unintuitive behavior that is happening to
> confuse you. By default, any drag-n-drops for files/folders *within*
> the computer are "move" operations. However, any drag-n-drops for
> files/folders from one device to another (like your external drive), are
> "copy" operations.
>
> Try it out. Make a test file in Open Office with some gibberish and
> save it. Then play around with its icon by moving it to other folders
> to see what happens. You can open the windows of other folders by going
> to the "Places" menu in the top bar of your desktop.
>
> --
> After upgrade to Karmic, CD/DVD drive no longer works
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/478962
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>
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> When the upgrade for Ubuntu 9.10 was offered, I thought I was expected to allow it to run, I am rather new at this stuff.
> ...snip...
> summary:
> After the upgrade, the computer no longer shows the CD or DVD after inserting them into my drive.
> ...end snip...
> I am at my wits end, as I cannot listen to my CD's at all. HELP! please?
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Sun Nov 8 23:36:48 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: yelp 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
> SourcePackage: yelp
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
>
>

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