GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 373611
Transferring hundreds of songs to full iPod causes pop up hell.
Last modified: 2018-05-24 12:02:15 UTC
Steps to reproduce: 1. Plug in an IPod that's got no free space 2. Drag an artist (or other selection) of a dozens or hundreds of tracks onto the ipod, in the attempt to transfer them to the ipod What happens: 3. One popup will be shown for each track to be copied, for hundreds of tracks this will freeze up GNOME and Rhythmbox. Suggested fix: Before transfering any tracks, calculate the total size of the selection, and the amount of free space. If not all the tracks will fit, only show one popup stating this. Stack trace: Other information: iPod Mini 6G. Latest version of rhythmbox from CVS.
This may be related to bug #351682.
The popup problem is a more general bug that requires a more general solution. I got a similar problem when I went to copy all my music to a new ipod and ran into a filename-related bug (bug #374078). I had to click through hundreds of pop-up windows with the same error message. It would have been much nicer to have these consolidated into one error message.
This is still happening on Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 with Rhythmbox 0.11.2.
*** Bug 540650 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Why is this 2-year old bug, that seems to be easy to fix, not even confirmed?
Most bugs in bugzilla are unconfirmed, that doesn't prevent people from fixing them. If it's easy to fix you should be able to post a patch right ? ;)
The same problem happens when you try to transfer your whole library if files have been removed from the hard drive. Maybe Rhythmbox should update the library when it notices some files are missing.
*** Bug 581671 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 602992 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I've run into this bug a number of times also, but it's happened for me due to permission errors rather than my ipod running out of space. Often when I plug in in my ipod, it gets mounted as root:root instead of my desktop user and if I forget about that and try to copy stuff to the ipod, I get a storm of error popups. That's pretty painful when you're trying to copy more than 500 files, as I've done more than once.
Permission denied issue: This issue got fixed in one of the recent commits ( not sure which one ). I can reproduce this in one of my branches which doesn't have commits in the last month, but not reproducible in git master. Now there is only a single dialog even if multiple files are copied. Refer attachement: https://bug745996.bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=337913
Created attachment 337988 [details] Screenshot when there is no space left on device. Out of space issue: This issue is fixed, and not reproducible in git master ( and my old branch ). Now there is a single dialog ( refer attachment )
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