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Bug 735262 - Meld hangs in Directory Comparison when one of the directories is accessed via sftp
Meld hangs in Directory Comparison when one of the directories is accessed vi...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 317875
Product: meld
Classification: Other
Component: dirdiff
git master
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: meld-maint
meld-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-08-23 05:19 UTC by Ariel
Modified: 2014-08-23 22:16 UTC
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Description Ariel 2014-08-23 05:19:17 UTC 
In a fedora 20 desktop, in nautilus I added a bookmark to an sftp folder:

sftp://test@192.168.1.1/media/sdb1  that shows as "Remote Folder"

Which works fine in nautilus.

When opening meld > directory comparison > directory selector #1, this entry shows up; I can select it and further, I can navigate the remote file structure and find the folder I need to compare.

Then in directory selector #2, I select a local directory. 

Then I click Compare and Meld hangs forever. Everytime, no matter what SFTP folder I select

I tried Fedora 20's Meld, and also the current git master meld. Same behavior.
Comment 1 Kai Willadsen 2014-08-23 22:16:07 UTC 
Yeah this just won't work (until we port to using gio for all file access, which is a moderate sized task). We don't tell the file selector that we support remote files either, so it shouldn't even let you select the SFTP folder.

I'm assuming that your SFTP directory is mounted over fuse or something... and there's really nothing that we can do about that scenario.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 317875 ***