Public bug reported: Binary package hint: nautilus
Like lots of people with dual-boot systems, or external USB drives that must be read elsewhere, I have some volumes which are NTFS. Using latest Ubuntu with Nautilus 2.22.5.1, I went into a user-area of my XP NTFS drive (a sub-directory within 'My Documents' and successfully copied the contents to another drive (no problems thus far). I then sat with Nautilus having my XP volume's 'My Documents' folder open and with the highlight bar (in rhs pane) highlighting just the sub-directory that I wanted to now delete and I pressed 'Del'. The sub-directory had about 500 files of average size 20kb (ie total of 10MB of data) in it. The Nautilus interface then asked if I really wanted to delete contents of 500 files and I confirmed 'OK' (still all as one would expect thus far). The Nautilus dialogue box then said 'Preparing to Delete and started showing the count of how many files it was preparing to delete, and the total amount of disk space involved. When it cliimbed to 4,500 files representing 4GB I clicked 'Cancel' to stop the whole volume (or maybe just whole of 'My Documents') being deleted. The 'locus'/'focus' of the Delete function (the span of action) got confused between the asking about 500 files, but then proceeding to find thousands of files that matched. So, for further experimentation as to whether the bug was related ONLY to deleting directories, I then clicked within that particular directory and did a 'Ctrl-A' to select all files and then pressed 'Del' or 'Shift- Del' (can't remember which) and it also wanted to delete way too many files. So to narrow it down, I selected just the first file in the directory and pressed 'Del' and it correctly deleted just one file (after saying it could not go to trash). So I tried on the second (now top of remaining files) file in list and tried 'Shift-Del' and it mis-behaved, checking if I wanted to delete all 500 and (I think) then selecting thousands more before I clicked 'Cancel'. I'm strongly advocating Ubuntu (eg see my posts on Linux v Vista on Zdnet: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Vista-shunned-in- business-survey/0,130061733,339292397,00.htm and http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/hardware/soa/Rudd-wants-computer- cooperation/0,130061702,339292316,00.htm But if we are to get XP users to convert, they are most likely to try dual-boot, and if we delete whole volumes of their NTFS files when they thought they were deleting just a tiny portion, we'll get clobbered for such incompetence. I think this is a high-priority bug, and moreover, with any new version of Nautilus, someone should have one or two NTFS volumes (eg USB hard drives) attached for compatibility testing. The Kernel seems great, most of the major apps are great, the minor utilities are a bit light-on in functionality, but the BIG problem is that Nautilus is way too buggy and/or non-intuitive. Graeme (prof at-symbol post.harvard.edu) ** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: delete ntfs -- Dangerous Over-Delete - 'Single-File Shift-Delete' on NTFS deletes ALL https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/280713 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 desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
