GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 164110
Overwriting files on case-insensitive filesystems
Last modified: 2005-01-31 00:32:10 UTC
Please describe the problem: Nautilus appears to not check if the filesystem it's working with is case-insensitive. I was able to overwrite a directory on a FAT32 partition using Nautilus and Nautilus never asked to confirm the overwrite. Steps to reproduce: 1. Find a directory or file with the name [BlAh] 2. Make another file with the name [bLaH] 3. Copy/paste [BlAh] into the directory where [bLaH] already exists Actual results: Nautilus overwrites [bLaH] with [BlAh] with no warning. Expected results: Nautilus should show a "Do you really want to overwrite?" message before the overwrite. Does this happen every time? Yes Other information: I would guess this is because Nautilus is assuming any filesystems it would be working with are case-sensitive so when it compares [BlAh] and [bLaH] it finds they don't match, so no overwrite is possible.
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 92188 ***