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Bug 639090 - Delete folder of saved webpages along with the html file
Delete folder of saved webpages along with the html file
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File and Folder Operations
2.32.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-01-09 18:56 UTC by Chris Wilson
Modified: 2011-01-10 17:13 UTC
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Description Chris Wilson 2011-01-09 18:56:02 UTC 
On Windows, when saved webpages are deleted, the folder which is generated along with the saved webpage is also deleted automatically. On Ubuntu however, one has to select both files to delete them together. This feature would be nice to have and would aid in usability on ubuntu. It is not a new feature since delete is already possible so i think it qualifies as a papercut.

Perhaps a solution to this is to place the html file and accompanying folder both inside another folder, making it easier to delete the whole thing.
Comment 1 Chris Wilson 2011-01-09 18:57:11 UTC 
Originally reported at https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/690747
Comment 2 Cosimo Cecchi 2011-01-10 17:13:24 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> On Windows, when saved webpages are deleted, the folder which is generated
> along with the saved webpage is also deleted automatically. On Ubuntu however,
> one has to select both files to delete them together. This feature would be
> nice to have and would aid in usability on ubuntu. It is not a new feature
> since delete is already possible so i think it qualifies as a papercut.
> 
> Perhaps a solution to this is to place the html file and accompanying folder
> both inside another folder, making it easier to delete the whole thing.

Chris, thanks for the report.

I don't think we should by default try to detect this case, as it may happen that you need more than a file in the contents folder, and not the webpage.
Saving everything in a folder could be a good compromise, but it's something that should be done by the browser, not the file manager, which doesn't need to know about how this particular kind of files is saved.

Closing as WONTFIX; I suggest you try to hear browser developer's opinion either here (Epiphany) or in other upstream places (Mozilla's or Chrome's bug trackers).