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Bug 160365 - CD-RW overwriting unintuitively dangerous
CD-RW overwriting unintuitively dangerous
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 152379
Product: nautilus-cd-burner
Classification: Deprecated
Component: cd-burner
unspecified
Other Linux
: High critical
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Assigned To: Nautilus CD Burner Maintainers
Nautilus CD Burner Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-12-03 17:47 UTC by mjrauhal
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.7/2.8



Description mjrauhal 2004-12-03 17:47:28 UTC
In reference to bug #160266, which was about there not being a "blank" option
(with the expectation that without such option, new data would just be appended
in a multi-session manner), I'd like to still very strongly urge you to
reconsider having n-c-b _automatically overwrite data on CD-RWs_ without any
warning (that I noticed, anyway). This kind of behaviour is hardly something
that a normal user can be expected to expect when he throws in a disc with room
to spare in order to burn some files onto it, and certainly is not appropriately
conservative, considering the destructive potential.

The best way to fix this would be to add multisession support (currently marked
WONTFIX for, IMAO, all the wrong reasons; see bug #120384), do that by default,
and support overwriting of CD-RWs via a _non-default_ checkbox.

Opening a new bug simply because #160266 was moved to documentation. Whilst I am
a bit hesitant in classifying this bug "critical" given the developers' stated
stance on these issues, I find that it, for the above reasons, qualifies for the
"causes loss of data" clause, which merits the classification. YMMV.
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2004-12-06 22:57:04 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 152379 ***