Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: nautilus
Bug - Condensed: Better file copy mechanisms are needed between
filesystems. Offer a rename on name errors.
Bug - Detailed: Currently, in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy, Nautilus 2.22.3 does
not offer to rename files when errors occur copying files between
filesystems. It does notify the user that the file will not be copied
but unlike Kubuntu's user interface, it does not suggest to simply
rename the file and continue copying. In any case, if the user steps
away from the computer, copying should not "pause", "cease" or "hang" on
error (except for the files with errors in them). Errors should be
presented to the user as "ON HOLD" to ask what to do with the files,
while the rest of the files are copied over.
Copying runs into issues when files which have legal characters in ext3
that do not in fat32/fat16 must be renamed by the user. As well files
with capitalization do not hold a different name as files with lower
case names (i.e. mark.jpg vs MARK.JPG and Mark.jpg). In ext3 these can
live together in a common directory, whereas on fat (which is not
capital sensitive) if you were to copy these three files, only one of
them would live. To rectify the missing files you would need to:
1) remember or note the location of the files
2) change the names
3) copy the files manually
Efforts to simplify copying for the end user have been made in the past
with the addition of the "merge" functionality. We will now need naming
issues to be addressed.
** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Better file copy mechanisms are needed between filesystems (offer rename)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263338
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