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Bug 608556 - Renaming files/folders inside file-roller results in data-loss
Renaming files/folders inside file-roller results in data-loss
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: file-roller
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.28.x
Other Linux
: Normal critical
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Assigned To: Paolo Bacchilega
file-roller-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-01-30 21:06 UTC by TH
Modified: 2011-04-08 14:35 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description TH 2010-01-30 21:06:59 UTC 
When renaming a file, the file disappears.
When renaming a folder, the folder's content disappears, and the folder is not renamed.

This applies to at least *7z, *.zip and *.tar.bz2.
For 7-zip, the package p7zip is installed.
OS: Ubuntu 9.10 amd64


Steps to reproduce:

1) Create two new files inside a folder
2) Compress the folder in either of the three formats mentioned above using the right-click menu option
3) Open the newly created archive in file-roller
4a) Rename a file and watch the renamed file disappear
4b) Rename the folder and watch all the files inside it disappear, while the folder keeps the old name

With *.zip and *.tar.bz2 I see the following error:
"An error occurred while adding files to the archive."

With *.7z I don't see any errors.


Here's another bug-report with somewhat the same problem, but only for remote files: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/485098
Comment 1 Paolo Bacchilega 2010-01-31 09:20:27 UTC 
I tried with version 2.29.5 and renaming works correctly, although when renaming the folder the old folder is not deleted from the archive, but this is another issue.
Comment 2 TH 2010-01-31 11:33:16 UTC 
Any possibility of backporting a fix if someone else confirms this problem with version 2.28.1?
Comment 3 Paolo Bacchilega 2010-01-31 19:03:54 UTC 
doing some testing I found issues in the 2.29 version as well, I hope it's fixed now.
Comment 4 Akhil Laddha 2011-04-08 06:41:02 UTC 
Can you please check again whether this issue still happens in GNOME 2.32.2 or 3.0 and update this report by adding a comment and changing the "Version"
field? Thanks a lot.
Comment 5 TH 2011-04-08 14:35:32 UTC 
I checked version 2.32.0 (Ubuntu 10.10) and 2.32.1 (Ubuntu 11.04 beta), and this is no longer an issue...