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Emptying deleted symbolic links in Trash deletes folder contents.

Bug #323321 reported by Gina
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Nautilus
Fix Released
Critical
gvfs (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
Ubuntu ubuntu-9.04
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: nautilus

When a symbolic link to a folder is moved to Trash and the Trash emptied the contents of the linked folder are lost. The linked folder itself remains but is empty,

System :- Jaunty 64 bit (updated 30 Jan 2009) on AMD64 X2 with ext4 partitions for / and /home

Test Method :-
Create test folder on desktop - create folder within that folder - create link to the test folder. Now Move link to Trash and then empty Trash. Test folder remains but the folder that was inside it is gone - the test folder is empty.

This was reported to me by another user.
See thread in Ubuntu Forums :- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6646177#post6646177

Possible related bug :-
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/317781/comments/15 - Ext4 data loss

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/lucid/gvfs
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Tommaso R. Donnarumma (tawmas) wrote :

For alternate reproduction recipe and apport-generated dependencies, see duplicate bug #323317.
Marking confirmed.

Changed in nautilus:
status: New → Confirmed
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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote :

Not confirming here on ext3. Could you please try deleting the symlink from your ~/.local/share/Trash/files folder with "rm" and see if that follows the symlink too?

Changed in nautilus:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Tommaso R. Donnarumma (tawmas) wrote :

I'm going to do at once.

BTW, I've just found that the link must be an absolute, not relative one, for this to happen. Did you try with an absolute or a relative link?

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Confirmed, seems bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=512144 re appeared, will comment upstream, thanks.

Changed in nautilus:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → ubuntu-9.04
status: Incomplete → Triaged
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Changed in nautilus:
status: Unknown → New
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Tommaso R. Donnarumma (tawmas) wrote :

I don't know if this is still useful, however neither rm nor rm -r follow the symlink.

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Gina (ginalinux) wrote :

Yes, that fits it perfectly. Thanks.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gvfs - 1.1.4-0ubuntu3

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gvfs (1.1.4-0ubuntu3) jaunty; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/93_svn_change_fix_trash_enumerate_issue.patch:
    - svn change to fix trashing issue (lp: #323321)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:47:26 +0100

Changed in gvfs:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Changed in nautilus:
status: New → Fix Released
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Allison Karlitskaya (desrt) wrote :

The bug was in gvfs.

Changed in nautilus:
status: New → Invalid
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in nautilus:
importance: Unknown → Critical
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