Package: nautilus
Severity: normal
Version: 2.1.0
Synopsis: Copying/moving a folder replaces a similarly named folder in the destination
Bugzilla-Product: nautilus
Bugzilla-Component: File and Folder Operations

Description:
Description of Problem:

Copying/moving a folder to a location that has a folder of the same name
replaces the old folder, instead of adding the contents of the newly
copied/moved folder to it.

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Create folder "pants" in one location, create a folder "pants" in
another location and touch a few files in it.
2. Copy the "pants" folder with files in it to the same location the
empty "pants" folder is in.

Actual Results:

Nautilus will pop up a dialogue asking if you want to replace the "file"
(not folder, as it happens, so this is probably just not special cased)
"pants". You can choose "Replace" (which deletes the old "pants" folder
and puts the copied/moved one in its place) or "Skip" (which skips the
entire operation).

Expected Results:

One of two things:

1) The contents of the copied/moved folder should be copied/moved into
the folder with the same name in the destination, and the source folder
should be deleted.

2) A dialogue should pop up with "Folder blah exists, do you wish to
replace it, or add to it?" (or something sensible) with the buttons
"Replace" and "Add" (needs a better word)

I think solution 1 is perfectly valid (Windows Explorer does this), and
avoids the silly confusing semantics issues in point 2. It's also
non-interactive, so the right thing will happen by default, without user
interaction.

How often does this happen?

Regularly, I find it annoying because I do this a lot. :-)

Additional Information:

Nautilus is kicking so much arse!




------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2002-10-12 00:32 -------

Reassigning to the default owner of the component, nautilus-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.