-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Well, it could at least give me the full path of the file, instead of a tiny clipping of it.
Calum Benson wrote: > On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 01:55 -0400, Caleb Marcus wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I was copying a large folder, and I ran into an error with one file. >> The dialog box had this message: >> >> Error "Generic error" while copying "file:///ho...ur%82e.m4a" >> >> There are several issues with this. First of all, it doesn't tell me >> the whole file name, and there's no way to resize the dialog to see >> the whole thing. The only way for me to figure out what file didn't >> get copied is to diff the two folders. Secondly, it doesn't tell me >> why it didn't copy. It would be nice if it had some way of trying to >> figure out why it broke. In this case, it was because the target file >> system, NTFS, didn't support a character in the filename. > > IIRC, nautilus depends on gnome-vfs to tell it why the copy failed; if > it doesn't, there's not much it can tell you (although it sounds like > the error message could still be better). You might want to file a bug, > or wait to see if the new gvfs fixes it. > > Cheeri, > Calum. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHAWqVX2SHyykm3j4RAtoHAJ0WDo2JkfeSFGQyDjLGkkz7Fe6XYACdHU5t RHZSVyPk1cmqHh5omg425/Q= =MWw3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
