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Bug 350640 - sending an empty folder doesn't work
sending an empty folder doesn't work
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: file-roller
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.14.x
Other Linux
: Normal trivial
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Assigned To: Paolo Bacchilega
file-roller-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-08-09 20:48 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2008-08-16 17:58 UTC
See Also:
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Description Sebastien Bacher 2006-08-09 20:48:48 UTC 
That bug has been described on https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/nautilus-sendto/+bug/55603

"1.open places->computer,chose a empty folder;
2.click Edit->Send open "Send to"window,input a mail address,click Send;
3.cue error but then click OK also can send the folder.
...
> Thanks for your bug report. Confirmed here on Edgy. "You cannot attach the file `/tmp/nautilus-sendto-daniel/1155114073/Dateien.zip' to this message.

Cannot attach file /tmp/nautilus-sendto-daniel/1155114073/Dateien.zip: No such file or directory"
..."
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2006-08-21 21:43:50 UTC 
file-roller is being called to pack the file:
/usr/bin/file-roller --add-to="/tmp/rubbish.zip" "/tmp/rubbish/"

Try:
1. mkdir /tmp/rubbish
2. /usr/bin/file-roller --add-to="/tmp/rubbish.zip" "/tmp/rubbish/"
3. ls -l "/tmp/rubbish.zip"
ls: /tmp/rubbish.zip: No such file or directory

Zip itself works though, so the problem is most likely in file-roller itself.
Adding a file inside /tmp/rubbish makes it work as well.
Comment 2 Paolo Bacchilega 2006-10-15 16:24:34 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 162792 ***
Comment 3 Josselin Mouette 2007-04-25 22:22:21 UTC 
Ths fix that was committed seems to fix extraction of archives containing empty directories, but you still can't *create* archives containing empty directories.

See http://bugs.debian.org/420961 which is reproducible with 2.18.
Comment 4 Paolo Bacchilega 2008-08-16 17:58:38 UTC 
fixed in current trunk.