GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 609813
File metadata are lost after renaming/moving nonlocal file
Last modified: 2018-09-21 17:01:40 UTC
The first part of this bug is easy to demonstrate: Create a text file, add a note. The note icon appears as it should. Rename the file and note icon disappears as does the note. Change the filename back to the original name and the note reappears A second manifestation occurs when working with remote file systems: Connect to the remote file system via SSH (sftp protocol) Create a file and add a note to it. Drag the file to another remote folder and the note disappears ON the other hand, if I: Copy the remote file to the clipboard & paste it into the other remote folder then the note survives. I am running Ubuntu 9.10. The remote files are on another Ubuntu 9.10 system that runs our family web site (apache, MySQL, ...) The connection between them was created using the Nautilus "Connect to Server" facility
Created attachment 153691 [details] I renamed this file to ZZZ.txt and the note disappeared.
Copying a file using cp from the command line also causes notes to vanish. Copy/paste from the GUI preserves the note
This bug is a duplicate of bug 609647.
*** Bug 609647 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
-> gvfs This is likely to be a bug in the gvfs metadata backend.
By the way, which nautilus and gvfs versions are you using?
*** Bug 609675 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
@Cosimo: I can reproduce it with Nautilus 2.28.1 and gvfs 1.4.1 (at least on a local file system, I haven't tried on a remote file system).
This fixes the local files version of the problem: http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/?id=4535683b3f42b6840e01bd94fe6ea792b0ebeecf However, we need to do the same for gvfs backends that handle move and rename.
(In reply to comment #9) > This fixes the local files version of the problem: > > http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/?id=4535683b3f42b6840e01bd94fe6ea792b0ebeecf > > However, we need to do the same for gvfs backends that handle move and rename. Any idea when the fix for the bug will make it into the distros? Brent
*** Bug 601706 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Changing the summary, because the bug is partially fixed...
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