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Bug 641398 - Filename too long error when copying: Provide option to rename
Filename too long error when copying: Provide option to rename
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Cut Copy Paste Undo
3.2.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-02-03 18:58 UTC by Alexey Levan
Modified: 2021-06-18 15:28 UTC
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GNOME target: ---
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Description Alexey Levan 2011-02-03 18:58:27 UTC 
Currently, when I'm trying to copy files from my USB stick to a hard drive with ext4 filesystem, for some of them I'm getting a messagebox "filename too long", and these files just skipped.  To get all the files copied, I have to find all of these files, rename them and copy one-by-one, which isn't very convenient.

It would be much better if, when target filesystem doesn't support a filename, a user was given a way to rename file, so that copying task was fully completed.
Comment 1 Serhiy Zahoriya 2012-01-22 20:38:24 UTC 
It still present in Nautilus 3.2.1.
It's very difficult to gather all these filenames to copy them by hand.
P.S. Why can't I change the bug status?
Comment 2 Fabio Durán Verdugo 2013-04-07 18:16:19 UTC 
is this still a issues valid?
Comment 3 André Klapper 2021-06-18 15:28:59 UTC 
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org.
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org
which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately
quite limited so not every ticket can get handled).

If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent
and supported software version of Files (nautilus), then please follow
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Thank you for your understanding and your help.