Assuming this is fixed in Ubuntu 18.04 and Cosmic. Please change back to
New if you can reproduce this bug there.
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1066871
Title:
The command 'Make Link' creates multiple file copies
Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
(Note:- 64bit 12.04 ubuntu (and variants of it) do not exist!
So I have had to say that I don't know where I found the bug.)
This looks like a serious bug to me - others have confirmed this by repeating
the test below:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12296573#post12296573
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Try to make a document link:
Open Gedit - copy and paste a few bytes of text - save as 'AA-test' in your
document dir.
Open Nautilus and check your doc dir - yes it's there.
Rclick it - 'make link'.
What you now see is a new file called 'Link to AA-test ' - both are
the same file size.
Dclick the 'Link to' file and delete a couple of bytes (2 characters),
and save.
My sys is set to make bakups, so I now see:
Link To AA-test~_____ 945bytes
AA-test____________ 943bytes
Link To AA-test______ 945bytes
The above is clearly incorrect cos my bakup file is called 'Link To'
Now open 'AA-test' directly, and delete 2 more characters and save.
I now see:
AA-test____________ 941bytes
Link To AA-test~_____ 945bytes
AA-test~___________ 943bytes
Link To AA-test______ 945bytes
It seems conclusive that 'make Link' is not functioning correctly.
Further tests can be made, eg. rename 'Link To' - 'Linq To'.
When you load it in Gedit, top-left informs you are working on 'Linq To
AA-test'.
Apart from this being confusing...... it looks like instead of having
a small link file, my doc, and my bakup doc......... I now have 4 full
size docs wasting space on my HDisk.
This is surely a bug no?
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