still fails in exactly the same way, 9 years later. dialog is provided, choices are made, go is pressed. nothing happens.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495697 Title: "apply permissions to enclosed files" doesn't work with symlinks Status in Nautilus: New Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: nautilus when changing the permissions of a directory, the 'apply permissions to enclosed files' button had no effect. why? because (after much head scratching) the directory turned out to be a symlink to a directory. the button should either work (ie: follow the symlink and do its job) or be greyed out (or better yet tell you why it's not working). my preference would be to just follow the symlink and get on with it.. this is karmic, but also tested to fail on hardy, and presumably everything in between. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/495697/+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
