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nautilus told me .zip indicates the file is a folder

Bug #111345 reported by Chris Moore
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: nautilus

I was browsing a Windows shared drive using nautilus. I clicked on a .zip file and was told by nautilus that:

  The filename "Dokumenty-15.4.07.zip" indicates that this file is of type "folder". The
  contents of the file indicate that the file is of type "ZIP archive".

I've not changed any of the nautilus settings, other than to make things open with a single rather than double click. I can open other .zip files as usual, and after closing and re-opening the nautilus window, clicking the .zip file now opens file-roller, as I would expect it to. (The .zip file doesn't actually open, but that seems to always be the case on Windows shared drives, and is the subject of a separate bug report).

I'll attach a screenshot of the message I received.

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Chris Moore (dooglus) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug. Could you attach the zip triggering the bug?

Changed in nautilus:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Chris Moore (dooglus) wrote :

Sorry, I can't attach it because:

1) it's huge
2) it's private
and
3) I no longer have a copy of it

but that shouldn't matter - the contents are type "ZIP archive", and it seems to be just the name which was confusing things. Maybe there was a non-ASCII character in its name - it was on a shared drive on a Czech copy of Windows.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

closing the bug then, without a way to trigger the bug or an example we can't work on it

Changed in nautilus:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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Chris Moore (dooglus) wrote :

As noted in the bug description, this is an intermittant problem. Restarting nautilus fixed it for me.

It makes no sense to reject a bug just because it's intermittant. The bug is real - it happened, just like in the screenshot. Why reject it?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

we have no use to keep bugs when we don't have enough details to work on it. In this case it happened once to one people, there is no example nor way to trigger it, how do you want to try a fix and know if it works in this case?

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