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Bug 542960 - Improve the error message when there's not enough space on the disk
Improve the error message when there's not enough space on the disk
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File and Folder Operations
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-07-14 18:04 UTC by Oxmosys
Modified: 2011-10-18 15:28 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement

Attachments
Patch to show acctual space needed to do the copy (1.17 KB, patch)
2011-10-07 01:14 UTC, Timothy Arceri 		committed Details | Review

Description Oxmosys 2008-07-14 18:04:56 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
Tried copying some large files to a USB-stick. Nautilus said there was 1.8 GB. Selected 1.8 GB of files, and tried to copy them to the USB-stick. Nautilus gave the following error:
Error while copying to "Music".
There is not enough space on the destination. Try to remove files to make space.

Nothing wrong with that, you might say. However, the "Show more details" option shows a strange message:
There is 1.8 GB available, but 1.8 GB is required.

Some people might think that 1.8 GB is 1.8 GB. In addition, it could show you how much space is required (like 10 MB).

Note, this may not be a "bug", it is more of a strange error which could be improved.

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Does this happen every time?


Other information:
Comment 1 Timothy Arceri 2011-10-07 01:14:31 UTC 
Created attachment 198497 [details] [review]
Patch to show acctual space needed to do the copy

I have attached patch to show acctual space needed to do the copy, rather than just showing the size of the space remaining and the file to be copied as this can sometimes be exactly the same once rounded off.
Comment 2 Cosimo Cecchi 2011-10-07 15:49:02 UTC 
Review of attachment 198497 [details] [review]:

Thanks, looks good!
If you have a GNOME git account, feel free to push the patch to git master, otherwise I'll do it for you.
Comment 3 Timothy Arceri 2011-10-08 00:20:53 UTC 
Thanks for the quick review. Can you do the push as I dont have git access.
Comment 4 Cosimo Cecchi 2011-10-18 15:28:47 UTC 
Pushed to master now, thanks!