Moving directory too slow when there is some conflict !

Bug #4294 reported by Stéphane Brunner
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Nautilus
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Bug Description

- I cut a directory
- I past It on an other directory who contains a directory with the same name as the cutted directory !
=> it will copy the files not cut and delete the source files at the ends only it all is success.

the problem are :
- it is slow !
- it something interrupt the move we should restart all the move (with many files for example !)
- sometime it stop without error !

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

thanks for your bug. Are the files on the same filesystem? which format? I guess that's an upstream choice to deal with conflict cases

Changed in nautilus:
assignee: nobody → gnome
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Stéphane Brunner (stephane-brunner) wrote :

Yes the files ar in the same file system !
I test with reiserfs and smb.

It's probably true but if it can be improbed it is good ;-)

Note : If the destination directory doesn't allready exist it is OK ...

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

right, you don't have conflicts if the directory is not already here

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Stéphane Brunner (stephane-brunner) wrote :

Yes if the directory is not already here it's OK !

Changed in nautilus:
assignee: gnome → desktop-bugs
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Maftoul Samuel (samuel-maftoul) wrote :

I have created a directory structure like this one:

./destination
./destination/the-same-name
./destination/the-same-name/0
./destination/the-same-name/1
./destination/the-same-name/2
./destination/the-same-name/3
./destination/the-same-name/4
./destination/the-same-name/5
./destination/the-same-name/6
./destination/the-same-name/7
./destination/the-same-name/8
./destination/the-same-name/9
./the-same-name
./the-same-name/0
./the-same-name/1
./the-same-name/4
./the-same-name/6
./the-same-name/8
./the-same-name/9
./the-same-name/10

then in nautilus I cut ./the-same-name and paste it into ./destination.

Here a dialog pop's up:
The folder already exists, replace would erase any conflicting file
You can ignore, and it won't move ./the-same-name/10 , you can replace, It will move all file in ./the-same-name.
There probably should be an option "only add new files" that will not move all files, but just move ./the-same-name/10 and remove all files.
This probably should be done with care because source file will be removed.
The same happen if you copy the files, it's clearly safe to have an option "add new files" if you copy at least.

This should be reported upstream

Changed in nautilus:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Maftoul Samuel (samuel-maftoul) wrote :

reported upstream, added a tracker

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

thank you for forwarding that upstream

Changed in nautilus:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in nautilus:
importance: Unknown → Low
Changed in nautilus:
status: New → Expired
Mörgæs (moergaes)
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Invalid
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