https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418223
Bug ID: 418223 Summary: Copying and pasting folder in place can result in system freeze and corrupted source folder Product: dolphin Version: 19.12.2 Platform: Neon Packages OS: Linux Status: REPORTED Severity: critical Priority: NOR Component: general Assignee: dolphin-bugs-n...@kde.org Reporter: ae@seven.systems CC: kfm-de...@kde.org Target Milestone: --- This is the first time that happened after a million successful similar operations, but it is so critical that I will still report it. I often make a backup of a certain project folder before working on it. That is, I open dolphin, left-click on the folder to select it, then hit Ctrl-C Ctrl-V in quick succession to create a copy of it. This has worked fine at least 1000 times and resulted in the dialog asking to rename the pasted folder, and then a correct copy operation. Yesterday however (I can't remember the exact steps because I was in a business meeting and had people chatting to me etc.), it resulted in: - The whole desktop freezing upon hitting Ctrl-V - IMPORTANTLY: The SOURCE (!) folder suddenly being almost COMPLETELY EMPTY. All regular files were gone, the only thing that was still there was the first level of sub-folders (all sub-subfolders were gone too, and obviously all files in them). It is almost as if dolphin had "forgotten" to ask for a new folder name and had recursively tried to copy the folder into itself! It will probably be impossible to reproduce for you, but I swear it has happened and it is so critical that I simply had to report it despite not having good information for reproduction. I don't think it's a hardware failure (though it was on an external USB SSD). I checked all logs, among them /var/log/syslog, and there are no unusual error messages for the time period where it happened (I can pinpoint the time period because I switched to a different tty when the desktop froze and I see getty starting up). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.