This problem may be more serious than I previously thought. Moments ago I moved a 254MB file from my desktop computer to a network drive, and it seemed to transfer instantaneously. The file was deleted on my computer and when I looked at the network drive the file name was there, but the content was 0 bytes. The file was lost and the work to create it will have to be redone from scratch. Now it appears I can no longer trust moving files and will need to copy them and verify they are identical on both the source and the destination before manually deleting the source.
Is there a Linux distribution unaffected by this bug? If it is not going to be fixed I'm willing to change to another OS as I can't work without confidence that my files are secure when I move them to a permanent storage for others to access. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1075923 Title: nautilus hangs copying large directories from a samba share Status in GVFS: New Status in “gvfs” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Problem ======= Copying files to and from samba shares (this includes Windows shares) is unreliable in Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 13.04 when using nautilus' integrated samba client (gvfs-smb): The copy randomly hangs after a few files or a few GB. Workaround ========== Until gvfs-smb is fixed, use the kernel samba client (cifs) that works reliably, is faster, but needs some terminal commands to get going: # sudo -s # mkdir /mnt/cifs # mount -t cifs -o user=YOUR_SAMBA_USER -o uid=YOUR_LINUX_USER "//SAMBA_SERVER/SAMBA_SHARE" /mnt/cifs It will ask for you password, you can then access the shared files at /mnt/cifs. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1075923/+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
