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nautilus package

when doing a file copy nautilus should provide noclobber as a button

Bug #63116 reported by Paul O'Malley
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nautilus (Ubuntu)
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Wishlist
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: nautilus

When copying files from one location to another the use of no clobber would be useful with nautilus.
Use case one:
 where moving apt-get archives on a usb device (external drive) and the full archive from one machine is being moved to another
Use case two:
 where moving photos from a camera that is not auto detected such as the olympus camedia c-370

So an extra button called "copy new files only" or something like that needs to be in place.

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Juha Siltala (topyli) wrote :

I agree that setting noclobber would be useful.

Changed in nautilus:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug. What does "noclobber" is and would do?

Changed in nautilus:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: Confirmed → Needs Info
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Paul O'Malley (ompaul-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Use Case

If a directory had files foo1, foo3 fooN+1 but no foo2, foo4 foo5.
(Just to make the example work better, assume all files are big enough to call for 20 seconds copying time, and it will cost you several minutes to restore them all.
Jane happens to know all the files she wants are on filesystem /bar, knows that some files are missing but not which actual files.
So Jane can "cp /bar/* .", this is far from optimal, as this will this will overwrite all files in the location where the missing foo lives.
So Jane has the setting in .bashrc, "set -o noclobber".
noclobber will prevent any overwriting of files that actually exist on the system.

Only howto I can find that makes it easy to read:
http://www.linux.com/guides/abs-guide/options.shtml

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

how is that different of the "skip all" option proposed by nautilus in that case?

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Your bug lacks information we would need to investigate further. We
are now going to close the bug - please reopen if you have more
information at hand.

Changed in nautilus:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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