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Bug 668961 - Offer to resolve symbolic links when backend doesn’t support them
Offer to resolve symbolic links when backend doesn’t support them
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 581830
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File and Folder Operations
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-01-29 16:49 UTC by Philipp Cordes
Modified: 2013-12-16 11:45 UTC
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Description Philipp Cordes 2012-01-29 16:49:51 UTC 
You can only skip symbolic links if the target backend doesn’t support them. (Or cancel the entire copy process.)

It’d be better to ask the user whether the links should be resolved and copied as if they were actual files. Notifying the user is important, as the copies may need more disk space and behave differently from the originals.
Comment 1 Ross Lagerwall 2013-12-09 15:33:14 UTC 
This is a Nautilus UI issue. The underlying API [1] supports either following or not following the symlink.

[1] https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/GFile.html#g-file-copy
Comment 2 António Fernandes 2013-12-16 11:45:38 UTC 
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 581830 ***