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Bug 140386 - copy/paste folder overwrites all contents of an existing folder with the same name
copy/paste folder overwrites all contents of an existing folder with the same...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 48085
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Cut Copy Paste Undo
2.2.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-04-18 10:39 UTC by Chris Turchin
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.1/2.2


Description Chris Turchin 2004-04-18 10:39:05 UTC 
given the folder: 

/mnt/removable_disk/DCIM/211CANON/

(here a mounted compact flash volume - though this is irrelevant, i have tested
and this is reproducible given any identically named folders in two locations)
and the folder:

/data/images/211CANON

copying of the folder "/mnt/removable_disk/DCIM/211CANON/" in nautilus and
pasting it into the "/data/images" folder completely removes all contents of the
existing "/data/images/211CANON" folder. 

Result:

all 90 images in the folder are gone, replaced by the five new images from the
compact flash card.

Expected result: 

the new files in "/mnt/removable_disk/DCIM/211CANON/" are copied into the
existing "/data/images/211CANON" folder, and the folder contains all previous
contents and the new files as well. This behaviour is consistent with
"alternative operating systems" as well as the "cp -R" command in GNU/linux.
Comment 1 Martin Wehner 2004-04-18 13:21:06 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into
our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 48085 ***