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** Changed in: file-roller (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to file-roller in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1171236 Title: file-roller may delete the content of linked folder (?) Status in “file-roller” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: (Excuse my english, I'm not a native speaker. I will try to be as clear as possible). After attempting to create an archive from folders who where actually just links, it seems that file-roller deleted all their content. Here are the steps I did : - Inside a folder, I had a dozen subfolders. Half of them where just links to folders placed elsewhere. - In Nautilus, I selected all these subfolders, choosed "compress", then choosed "zip" as the format. - The archive was created without any error message. I was expecting all the folders to be added to the archive, regardless of them being links or not. The disastrous result : - The archive is unusable. Attempting to expand it results in an error message (I didn't take note, but it was something generic saying the archive couldn't be expanded). - But more importantly, the content of the folders who where linked has disappeared. That is, the links are still here, the folders which they link to are still here, but they have been emptied. The files are not in the dustbin, they just disappeared. I noticed this right after I created the archive, I didn't touch my computer in-between. That's why I suspect file-roller. I will try to reproduce this bug in order to confirm it. But not before I find a way to recover my files, I lost a week of work because of this. Ubuntu 12.10 x64 file-roller 3.6.1.1-0ubuntu1.1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/+bug/1171236/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
