GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 729557
nautilus stops allowing cut paste during renaming
Last modified: 2021-06-18 15:30:23 UTC
I am doing this series of actions in Nautilus with Ubuntu 14.04: 1) Have 2 windows open, a source and a destination. 2) I do F2 on a file in the destination directory and then hit Ctrl+C to copy the name. 3) Move to the source window and F2 on the file I want to rename. 4) Use Ctrl+V, then slightly modify the name. Press enter. 5) Ctrl+X on the source item. - It will not cut (it does not gray) and if I Ctrl+V in the destination, the file does not paste. If I do "nautilus -q" to restart Nautilus, it will start working.
Thanks for the bug report and sorry for the late follow-up. I'm unable to reproduce this bug[*], but maybe I am not following the right step so I'm asking two questions about this bug: - From step 4) to step 5), is the file still in "renaming mode"? Can you provide a screenshot of the nautilus window in step 4) and step 5)? - Does the same thing happen when using Icon View as when using List View? [*] I tested nautilus 3.12 on Fedora 20 (+rhughes-f20-gnome-3-12).
(In reply to comment #1) > Thanks for the bug report and sorry for the late follow-up. > > I'm unable to reproduce this bug[*], but maybe I am not following the right > step so I'm asking two questions about this bug: Hi, I am experiencing the same bug (I think!) using the ubuntu flavor of nautilus 3.12.2 in the following situation: I have a *lot* of pdf files in ~/Download, and a bunch of other open tabs; then I rename the pdf files one by one with a readable title (using F2 + type name + Enter), press Ctrl+X to cut the renamed file, and move it to another tab (with Ctrl+PageUp/Down, Ctrl+V). After a while (it may take up to a dozen iterations), Ctrl+X refuses to work, i.e. the to-be-cut file is not grayed out at all. Interestingly, dnd'ing the files between tabs still works. The problem goes away by closing nautilus. An additional note: the bug occurs quite frequently but definitely not deterministically (read: you may need to repeat the rename/cut/paste loop a few times). > - From step 4) to step 5), is the file still in "renaming mode"? Can you > provide a screenshot of the nautilus window in step 4) and step 5)? In my case no file is in "renaming mode", the filenames are not editable. > - Does the same thing happen when using Icon View as when using List View? Good point, I'll see if I can reproduce that way and report back (hopefully). > > [*] I tested nautilus 3.12 on Fedora 20 (+rhughes-f20-gnome-3-12). Cheers,
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