Public bug reported:
If you try to move a number of files from one file system to another and
an error occurs that causes Nautilus to abort the move (eg disk full),
it leaves duplicate files on both source and target.
Personally, I would prefer it if Nautilus treated the move as a number
of individual file move operations (ie if it removed each source file
once the file has been successfully copied to the target).
But if Nautilus is treating the entire move as one operation it should
probably (try to) delete target files on an error, so that you don't end
up in an 'indeterminate state' with a partial duplication of the source
on the target. (This is especially a problem if you are moving a lot of
files into a directory already containing a lot of files as it's very
difficult to ascertain which ones copied and which ones didn't.)
** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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If an error occurs while moving files across disk volumes, Nautilus leaves
duplicate files on source and target
https://launchpad.net/bugs/67692
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