GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 654571
Canceled or interrupted file copy leaves leaves incomplete files on target folder
Last modified: 2011-07-21 19:28:00 UTC
Nautilus doesn't handle well the interruption of file copy process: 1) Select one or more large files in naunlus (e.g. .iso files > 1GB) 2) Right click on them and select copy (or press ctrl+c) 3) Go to another folder, right click and select paste (or ctrl+v) 4) The file transfer dialog should appear, press the cancel button before the copy is finished The files copied in the target folder are left there even if they are incomplete. This behaviour is very unfriendly because if the user repeats again the operation later nautilus could not disinguish between complete and incomplete files, forcing the user to repeat the whole operation overwriting all files or checking them one by one. The problem could also lead to data loss, if the user isn't aware of this behaviour, he may think that all the file listed in the target folder have been correctly copied and skip them when repeating the operation.
I confirm the problem and the description. It is really annoying
I confirm, we're discussing it on Ubuntu italian forum. Nautilus doesn't manage well the interruption of copy process: If I start copying something using nautilus and then I cancel the process, what has been copied for this time remains. This is useless, because an incomplete file is unusable, infact Windows Explorer, Finder and Thunar (as of June 2010: http://forum.ubuntu-it.org/index.php/topic,389663.msg3026519.html#msg3026519) erase the incomplete files. OS: arch x86_64 gnome-desktop 3.0.2-1 nautilus 3.0.2-1
I confirm the bug! OS: Arch x86_64 Gnome-desktop 3.0.2-1 nautilus 3.0.2-1
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 389828 ***