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nautilus bug copy from search window....

Bug #68221 reported by zpro
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Nautilus
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
nautilus-actions (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

When I did a search to find .pdf files, the search window found 1421 .pdf files.. great. the I proceeded to copy about 200 of them to another hard drive... say the copy dialog window pop up, and it starts to copy,
then a min later, the window disappeared, I check the folder on the other hard drive.. it only had 24 .pdf files.. huh??, then I tried it again,
the same thing, it would quit copying files at some point.

Again, I was copying .pdf files FROM the search window box,
to another hard drive..

Reason: have 211 folder that contain .pdf files,
it was easier to search, on the main folder, then pull them out and copy,
all into one new folder on my other hard drive. (usb)

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report. Confirmed with Edgy. I copied 179 *.pdf files to a usbdisk and varying amounts of *.pdf files actually made it there. I even waited until evince-thumbnailer had done its job, but to no avail.

Somebody of the team should forward this upstream.

Changed in nautilus:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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John Leach (johnleach) wrote :

me too, here on latest Edgy. how to reproduce:

open up a folder with lots of files in subdirectories (in my case, 115 files from about 300 directories)

hit CTRL+f and search for a file pattern

hit CTRL+a to select all the results, copy to clipboard and paste into a new directory (or drag and drop). The copied files list won't match the search results.

In my case, a copy of 115 search results only copies the first 13 files. I can copy each file from the results lists individually with no problems. If I copy in groups of 13 files, I can get anything from 13 files actually copied, to only 2.

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SFS (sortfloorsolutions) wrote :

Since there is no warning that the copy was unsuccessful, shouldn't this be considered a High Priority bug?

I lost a bunch of pictures when I relied on a similar copy operation that failed w/o warning. This would really suck in the business world if most of a companies files were lost due to simple copy/paste functionality.

Can you say "Enterprise Ready" or even "So easy, my Grandma can use it"??? I can hear her cursing already.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

does anybody still get the issue on hardy?

Changed in nautilus:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
John Leach (johnleach) wrote :

I've just made several similar tests in Ubuntu Hardy and this bug appears to be fixed now.

Sebastien, why has the status been changed to incomplete? I might be misunderstanding the status, but it's a bit frustrating to have a confirmed bug set as "incomplete" :)

Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

changing to incomplete is a way to note that the bug is waiting for an update, since it works correctly on hardy now closing

Changed in nautilus:
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
status: New → Fix Released
Changed in nautilus-actions:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Invalid
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