Public bug reported: Binary package hint: nautilus
Example Disk has 100 mb of space left. current folder has file called A of size 200mb. Want to copy into that directory a file A of size 200mb and a file called B of 10mb. (so enough space for B and A to exist on the disk) Outcome: See error message: Error while copying to "folder" There is not enough space on the destination. Try to remove files to make space. Show more details There is 100 MB available, but 210 MB is required. Cancel Retry Expected Outcome See error message: Error while copying to "folder" There is not enough space on the destination. Try to remove files to make space or chose individual files to copy. Show more details There is 100 MB available, but 210 MB is required. Cancel | Retry | Ignore warning; copy files individually Then dialog should appear like when you copy multiple files if you are are not running out of disk space, ie replace/skip options Then you would have the option to skip or replace file A when that file is copied, and to put file B in. ANd with disk space to spare Obviously in this case i could have done it individually by inspection, but when there are multiple levels of folder all containing different files, and you want to copy a new folder over the top, skipping each of the files already there, it becomes very difficult. Or you would have to delete the folder on the destination and copy from scratch (which would be slow, and in some cases still not what you wanted, if you had different version of the files in both places) Basically when there is an error on copying multiple files because of disk space, it should go through them one by one. It should just try to copy (after clicking ignore) instead of blocking you with an error message that is unneeded Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1 Release: 8.04 nautilus: Installed: 1:2.22.3-0ubuntu2 Candidate: 1:2.22.3-0ubuntu2 Version table: *** 1:2.22.3-0ubuntu2 0 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:2.22.2-0ubuntu4 0 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages gvfs: Installed: 0.2.4-0ubuntu2 Candidate: 0.2.4-0ubuntu2 Version table: *** 0.2.4-0ubuntu2 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 0.2.4-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages 0.2.3-0ubuntu4 0 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages ** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- nautilus says out of space on multiple files copy. but may actually want to skip/replace some files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/246130 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs