Re: [Usability] Another Nautilus file copy dialog issue

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 01:55 -0400, Caleb Marcus wrote:
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> I was copying a large folder, and I ran into an error with one file.
> The dialog box had this message:
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>     Error "Generic error" while copying "file:///ho...ur%82e.m4a"
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> 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.

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