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Bug 317016 - cant delete files with special chars in filename
cant delete files with special chars in filename
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Trash
2.12.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-09-23 09:49 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2007-12-27 00:22 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.11/2.12


Description Sebastien Bacher 2005-09-23 09:49:28 UTC 
This bug has been opened here: http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13959

"this even apllies to whitespaces
...
I can confirm this, although the situation is a bit more complicated: 

Please try the following cases:
- Make empty file named 'space file.txt' in /home/username/ where neither /home
nor /home/username are symlinks. Then delete with nautilus.
      Works for me.
- `mkdir ~/real; ln -s ~/real ~/linked; touch ~/real/space\ file` Now try to
delete the 'space file' by browsing to '~/linked/' in nautilus. Then try to
delete it by browsing to '~/real/' in nautilus
      It looks like you can't remove files with spaces (didn't test for more
chars) when nautilus must dereference symlinks. 

Actually this is about moving files to trash. When dragging file to trash an
error is shown, and an option for real deletion is offered and works.  "
Comment 1 Sebastien Bacher 2005-09-23 09:51:58 UTC 
With the patch from #308639 it opens a dialog asking if you want to delete the
file instead of moving it to the trash which is not optimal
Comment 2 Christian Neumair 2005-11-11 12:04:31 UTC 
But bug 308639 is closed, isn't it?
Comment 3 Gary Coady 2006-05-20 10:06:29 UTC 
Yes, this works in Ubuntu now - can somebody mark this as a duplicate?

Thanks.
Comment 4 Jesse Stockall 2007-02-06 22:51:02 UTC 
Works fine with 2.16.3 on Gentoo
Comment 5 Cosimo Cecchi 2007-12-27 00:16:24 UTC 
Closing as OBSOLETE for comment #3 and comment #4. I also tested this myself and works as expected (using 2.21.1).