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Bug 164110 - Overwriting files on case-insensitive filesystems
Overwriting files on case-insensitive filesystems
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 92188
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File and Folder Operations
2.8.x
Other All
: Normal critical
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-01-14 21:42 UTC by Brad Farris
Modified: 2005-01-31 00:32 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.7/2.8


Description Brad Farris 2005-01-14 21:42:25 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.
Comment 1 Sebastien Bacher 2005-01-31 00:32:10 UTC 
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 ***