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nautilus package

nothing happens when using shift-delete on a read-only selection

Bug #42761 reported by Tormod Volden
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Nautilus
Fix Released
Low
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

On a normal volume, "delete" puts thing in Trash and shift-delete really deletes. On a read-only volume, "delete" brings up the same warning about really deleting*, which of course will fail. When you try shift-delete, you would expect the same warning. But nothing happens - no reaction to the key press.

Thus can be really confusing, especially if you have the habit of using shift-delete most of the time.

*I guess this is a known bug: it should rather warn that the file can not be deleted.

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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote : Re: shift-delete does nothing on a removable volume

Actually I got terribly confused, since my removable volume suddenly was read-only. This because there was a filesystem error, and the kernel made it read-only without telling anyone else.

description: updated
Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)
description: updated
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Carthik Sharma (carthik) wrote : Re: delete and shift-delete on a read-only volume

So Tormod, is this still a bug or not, according to you?

I remember getting error messages which say that the action could not be completed since its a read-only volume.

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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote :

Yes, it is still a bug :)
There should be some feedback when shift-deleting on a read-only volume. For instance, the same feedback as when pressing delete.

Related, but maybe worth a separate bug: it should not ask if I really want to delete, when I press delete (or shift-delete) on read-only volume. It should rather say that it is a read-only volume and that it cannot delete.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug. I've forwarded it upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342105

The message being not optimal is a different issue

Changed in nautilus:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

This is still an issue with nautilus 2.21.90

Changed in nautilus:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Changed in nautilus:
status: New → Confirmed
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Changed in nautilus:
importance: Unknown → Low
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Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac) wrote :

Behavior is consistent in Nautilus 3.0 - on shift+delete a warning is displayed - 'Permission Denied'
Closing as Fix Released

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Changed in nautilus:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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