GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 80694
Dragging from read-only directory to desktop should default to 'Copy'
Last modified: 2006-03-29 19:55:20 UTC
It currently defaults to 'Move', and I get an error dialog. When I don't have rights to modify the directory I'm dragging from, it would be nice if Nautilus defaulted to copy.
Seems to work with nautilus 2.4 (it just copy the dir if read-only). I'm closing this bug. Feel free to reopen it if you still have a problem. Thanks
The permissions of the file or directory being moved is mostly irrelevant, it's the permissions of the parent folder that matters. This is at least still a problem with Nautilus 2.4.0-7 on Fedora Core 1 Try if this works for you: 1. Create a file inside a read-only directory, thus: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- $ cd /tmp/ $ mkdir readonly $ touch readonly/file $ chmod -w readonly/ $ ls -la readonly/ total 44 dr-xr-xr-x 2 havardw havardw 4096 Nov 23 01:03 . drwxrwxrwt 22 root root 40960 Nov 23 01:03 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 havardw havardw 0 Nov 23 01:03 file ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Go to /tmp/readonly in Nautilus and copy "file" to the desktop. Actual result: Nautilus defaults to move, and displays an error dialog about being unable to modify the parent directory. (You might get a different default action if /tmp and your desktop is on different volumes.) Expected result: Nautilus should default to copy, because the file cannot be deletet from its current location.
Ok, same problem here (my first try was with a /usr subdir and in this case the copy works as expected). I'm setting the version ot GNOMEVER2.4
In fact the problem is due to the desktop as destination (works fine with an another dir as destination). 119467 seems to be a duplicated
*** Bug 119467 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I'm changing the summary to add the "to desktop" part
*** Bug 128238 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
bug 143746 is slightly related
works fine with the current versions, bug closed. Feel free to reopen if that's still an issue for you.
Hmm... Doesn't work here, on GNOME 2.14. I get an error about being unable to move the file, both to desktop and to the home folder. Has something been changed, or should this bug be reopened?