** Description changed: Binary package hint: nautilus Nautilus allows you to mount archives such as tar and iso files. However, once you mount an archive and then navigated to that archives file system, you can't then copy that archive's file system's folders and files to another destination as you would normally be able to do from a mounted external hard drive for example. Details: Because I don't like using the command line to extract tar files, and because File-roller takes forever to read and then extract a 67gig tar file, I decided to mount that tar file to the file system, and then copy its contents to another destination. However, when I tried to copy the folders and files (in the mounted archive using nautilus -- to a regular file system location), I received this error: "There was an error copying the file into /home/username/customfolder/ . . . File doesn't exist" Replicate: To replicate this problem, mount a tar file that contains a folder hierarchy with files at various levels in that hierarchy. Here's what I did: Using nautilus, I right-clicked a 67gig tar file and selected "Open with Archive Mounter". Then I navigated to that mounted tar archive by selecting Places > Computer (in Ubuntu 8.10 (64 bit)) and then I selecting the mounted tar (which was listed in the left panel). Nautilus displayed the root directory of the archive. Next, I hit ctrl-a to select all files and folders in the mounted archive, and then I right-clicked on one of the highlighted files/folders and then select "Copy" from the context menu. After this, I navigated to a desired destination folder using nautilus, and then I right-clicked in the white space (in the right pane of the nautilus window) and then click "Paste" from the context menu. Then I received the following error: "There was an error copying the file into /home/username/customfolder/ . . . File doesn't exist" Thoughts: If the archive is truly mounted, Nautilus should allow you to treat the contents of the archive like any other mounted media (such as an external hard drive). You should be able to copy and paste the contents to a desired destination without receiving the error mentioned above. However, for some reason, since the file is actually contained in an archive (despite that the archive is mounted), nautilus doesn't think the file exists. But since it is mounted, nautilus should transparently understand how to treat the archive's contents as files and folders and - therefore output an error that "File doesn't exist" + therefore NOT output an error that "File doesn't exist"
** Tags added: archive file-roller mounter nautilus ** Summary changed: - Can't copy a mounted archieve's file system to another destination + Can't copy a mounted TAR archieve's file system to another destination ** Tags added: tar -- Can't copy a mounted TAR archieve's file system to another destination https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311761 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
