https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412664
Bug ID: 412664
Summary: Move a folder with subfolders: delete source folder as
soon as all containing files are moved
Product: frameworks-kio
Version: 5.60.0
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: fa...@kde.org
Reporter: codestr...@posteo.org
CC: kdelibs-b...@kde.org
Target Milestone: ---
Recently, I guided an occasional Plasma user when she wanted to sort out which
of here files were already copied to an external USB drive and which ones were
newer or missing. The following is one of the findings for potential
improvement.
We started a move operation of a folder structure from hard drive to USB drive.
The process took a while. The following was cause for confusion:
1. On the destination, the folder structure was created first and then, one by
one the folders were filled with the files.
2. On the source folder, a folder which was already empty, did not disappear at
once. The whole folder structure remaines until the process is complete.
The problem was: we _interrupted_ the move operation (deliberately, because of
some panic). Which left us going through all the mostly empty folders looking
which files were already moved and which not.
SUGGESTION:
1. Create folders on the destination only then, when files will be copied into
it.
2. Delete folder from the source as soon as all files are moved out.
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