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Bug 389828 - Nautilus can leave half-copied files on the target
Nautilus can leave half-copied files on the target
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 403652
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File and Folder Operations
2.28.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
: 610593 613469 654571 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-12-26 20:26 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2017-09-01 22:28 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.27/2.28


Description Sebastien Bacher 2006-12-26 20:26:44 UTC 
That bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/67691

"If a file move/copy fails half way through (eg due to volume full error), Nautilus advises there was an error but does not try to delete the half-copied file, leaving the impression to a user on the target file system that the file was successfully copied."
Comment 1 Matt Lertora 2009-04-25 13:21:48 UTC 
This is serious stuff! I was about to delete some important files thinking that I had completely copied each one of them, but in reality Natalius had left partial copies in the Copy destination.

Please fix this or at the very very least put a huge warning message box when the directory/file copy is cancelled by the user! 

I have: Ubuntu 9.04

I read the original bug report on Launchpad (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/67691 ) and it exactly describes the behavior I experience with Natalius. I start a directory copy of big files, cancel mid-way, and expect the Windows behavior of the partial file to be automatically deleted, so that if I start the whole directory copy again, I can answer Natalius to Skip All existing files.
Comment 2 Praveen Thirukonda 2009-11-13 16:05:35 UTC 
Please dont completely remove this "feature".
My use case, when i have a slightly corrupted CD/DVD/usb disk and i am copying a big video file from it to my pc, on windows it gets stuck in middle gives error and i cant view any of it.
In ubuntu, atleast some part of the file is copied and then error is given out, and i can still view a portion of the video which is great i think.
Comment 3 Cosimo Cecchi 2010-04-27 12:38:56 UTC 
*** Bug 613469 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Cosimo Cecchi 2010-04-29 12:23:33 UTC 
*** Bug 610593 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Jakob Unterwurzacher 2010-11-07 12:57:15 UTC 
Nautilus 2.30.1 - now also clicking cancel on a copy OR move operation leaves an incomplete file. While I/O errors are fairly uncommon, now this is affecting daily work.

@Praveen Thirukonda: Nautilus is not a data rescue tool, dd is far more suited.
Comment 6 Cosimo Cecchi 2011-07-21 19:28:00 UTC 
*** Bug 654571 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Dario 2011-07-22 22:21:54 UTC 
A question, why is this bug unconfirmed? There many reports of this bug and it is very easy to reproduce
Comment 8 ashmew2 2015-06-28 18:46:43 UTC 
There seems to be a lot of duplicate bugs and there seems to be a solution for bug #403652 - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=403652

Can someone mark this (or 403652) as a duplicate? This seems to have been resolved.
Comment 9 Alexandre Franke 2017-09-01 22:28:20 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 403652 ***