On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 01:55 -0400, Caleb Marcus wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I was copying a large folder, and I ran into an error with one file. > The dialog box had this message: > > Error "Generic error" while copying "file:///ho...ur%82e.m4a" > > There are several issues with this. First of all, it doesn't tell me > the whole file name, and there's no way to resize the dialog to see > the whole thing. The only way for me to figure out what file didn't > get copied is to diff the two folders. Secondly, it doesn't tell me > why it didn't copy. It would be nice if it had some way of trying to > figure out why it broke. In this case, it was because the target file > system, NTFS, didn't support a character in the filename.
IIRC, nautilus depends on gnome-vfs to tell it why the copy failed; if it doesn't, there's not much it can tell you (although it sounds like the error message could still be better). You might want to file a bug, or wait to see if the new gvfs fixes it. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
