| Summary: | Moving Desktop Link To Waste, Deletes Contents of Proper Folder | ||
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| Product: | unknown | Reporter: | e8 <contact> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WORKSFORME | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | finex |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Ubuntu | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
e8
2009-07-19 07:16:26 UTC
What do you exactly mean with "desktop-link"? the link of the "Dekstop" folder (~/Desktop) or any link placed on the KDE desktop? From where did you moved the "desktop-link"? Did you use dolphin? (In reply to comment #1) > What do you exactly mean with "desktop-link"? the link of the "Desktop" folder > (~/Desktop) or any link placed on the KDE desktop? > > From where did you moved the "desktop-link"? Did you use dolphin? A link to a folder, on the desktop. Yes, using Dolphin as file browser, but does that have any play on the desktop icons/files/links when deleting. Scenario : I create a link to a folder on the desktop on KDE4. It's a symbolic link. Now I get an error if I try to delete the link created, but I can right-mouse-menu and choose 'Move to Trash'. If I move the link to the trash then it will delete the entire contents of the link-to folder, but the trash only contains the symbolic link. there doesn't seem to be any way to recover the files lost out of the true folder. I consider this a serious bug as critical files can be lost out of simply getting rid of a desktop folder link. I've done the following steps 0) Configured plasma desktop with "folder view containment" 1) Started dolphin 2) Created a test directory on /tmp/test (with dolhin) 3) Added some test files on /tmp/test 4) From dolphin I've created the symbolic link of /tmp/test on my desktop folder. I've called the link ~/Desktop/test --> on the desktop the link appears 5) Right click on the "test" link on the desktop -> move to trash --> the link has been moved to the trash, but /tmp/test (and its contents) were still on the right place 6) Emptied the trashcan -> the link has been really deleted, but the linked folder has not been deleted. It looks like I'm not able to reproduce the bug. Am I doing something different from you? P.S: 'm using KDE trunk r999148 with Qt 4.5.2. (In reply to comment #4) > I've done the following steps > 0) Configured plasma desktop with "folder view containment" > 1) Started dolphin > 2) Created a test directory on /tmp/test (with dolhin) > 3) Added some test files on /tmp/test > 4) From dolphin I've created the symbolic link of /tmp/test on my desktop > folder. I've called the link ~/Desktop/test > > --> on the desktop the link appears > > 5) Right click on the "test" link on the desktop -> move to trash > > --> the link has been moved to the trash, but /tmp/test (and its contents) were > still on the right place > > 6) Emptied the trashcan > > -> the link has been really deleted, but the linked folder has not been > deleted. > > It looks like I'm not able to reproduce the bug. Am I doing something different > from you? > > > > P.S: I'm using KDE trunk r999148 with Qt 4.5.2. I performed your steps and it worked. I then tried the same steps I did which differs from putting the folder in user home dir, and using the mouse middle button to drag a link to the desktop. It crashed with a dialogue when trying to delete and then it caused a kde restart with a kdeinit error or some term like that, also it included an error report request, to which I did. Then I tried the steps again and it works! I must have had a corrupt config table or something. Strange issue. I hope it doesn't happen again as I originally lost a directory of content. Cheers and thanks for your time in looking at the issue! Ok, thanks. |