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Bug 155893 - Moving a closed folder loses all metadata
Moving a closed folder loses all metadata
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 139935
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File and Folder Operations
2.11.x
Other All
: Normal major
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-10-19 22:47 UTC by Erika Ahlswede
Modified: 2012-09-05 14:30 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.11/2.12


Description Erika Ahlswede 2004-10-19 22:47:00 UTC 
When a folder is moved in Nautilus, all stored information (zoom, window
size/position, arrangement) is lost. This is bothersome, and in spatial mode,
breaks the metaphor. 

While it's probably impossible to detect folders moved by external programs, the
folder information should be carried over when Nautilus itself is responsible
for the movement. (and if it's possible to glean this information from FAM, any
folder move made while Nautilus is running)
Comment 1 Christian Neumair 2005-05-13 14:20:38 UTC 
Thanks for your bug report!
I can only reproduce half of your symptoms: While Nautilus-moved folders seem to
keep their information as expected, this is not true for moves outside Nautilus.
Comment 2 Erika Ahlswede 2005-05-13 21:17:18 UTC 
I can still reproduce it with an in-nautilus folder move in 2.10.1, using this
procedure:

make a temporary folder, a. Inside that, make two other temporary folders, b and c.

Open up folder B, and resize the window to an easily recognizable shape. Close
folder B. (The closing step is important)

Move folder B into folder C and then open it. When I do this, folder B has the
default shape.
Comment 3 Christian Neumair 2005-05-14 09:22:03 UTC 
Eeek! Thanks for pointing this out. It really sounds scary.
Comment 4 Reinout van Schouwen 2005-11-28 00:05:41 UTC 
Is this related to bug 139935?
Comment 5 William Jon McCann 2012-09-05 14:30:43 UTC 
Seems like it.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 139935 ***