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Bug 149060 - during recursive copy, existing directories at dstination are removed
during recursive copy, existing directories at dstination are removed
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 48085
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File and Folder Operations
2.6.x
Other All
: High critical
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-08-02 11:02 UTC by Pavel
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.5/2.6


Description Pavel 2004-08-02 11:02:45 UTC 
copy a subtree of directories into a place where directories with same names
already exist.

Expected: Overwrite files only (if user confirms overwrite), but do not delete
existing directories prior to copy.

Actual result: Existing directories are completely removed before copy starts.

This behaviour is different from that of any other file manager or cp command
and is quite dangerous.
Comment 1 Olav Vitters 2004-08-02 15:37:17 UTC 
That is nasty. Bug is actually in gnome-vfs, but was fixed without a bugreport
in that product. The bug was reported in nautilus, so marking duplicate of that one.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 48085 ***