GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 141763
Nautilus erase previous content of a directory when copying from another one whith the same name instead of merging
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
what happenned ? 1) take 2 directories with the same name 2) copy one to another 3) the contents of the one who is receiving the copy is erased what I expect ? 1) exactly as cp -R 2) exactly as gmc 3) exactly as gnome-commander or even every kind of filemanager I used in my life the content should have been merged and updated... It means do you want to replace ? but not erased the file from dir 1 which are not present in dir 2 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm still hallucinating from this one, I know it has been reported the first time in 2001 and I still can't believe it's still here and shipped whith every recent distribution.....
This also happens for nautilus 2.6 - is this as designed? If so, it is counter-intuitive and dangerous for users migrating from Windows. At the very least, one would expect the popup 'Conflict While Copying' dialog to offer the option of merging the direcories (Skip, Replace, Merge). Reducing priority/severity as the dialog that pops up does warn that the 'file' will be replaced (sub-optimal text since it is the directory being replaced). Also changing the versions as there is probably more chance it will get fixed if it is against the latest version :)
the most incredible is that this bug has already been resolved because someone has sent a patch against it, look at this bug report : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48085 I was hoping it was not present into gnome2.6, so it's not worth upgrade... I'm going to try velocity just to see if it has this now called worst bug ever...... yeeeeeah, man, one more year and it will be top 1 in the top 10 bugzilla bug... (most frequently reported bug)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 48085 ***