Bug 265562

Summary:	Dolphin starts to copy big files (>4GB) to USB stick even if USB stick is vfat and so does not support large files
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	g.schlisio
Component:	general	Assignee:	Peter Penz <peter.penz19>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	frank78ac
Priority:	NOR
Version:	16.12.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description g.schlisio 2011-02-06 01:24:03 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.0) 
OS:                Linux

the builtin copy dialog of dolphin does not warn about it beeing impossible to perform the request. maybe there could be a warning in future releases.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
mount vfat-formatted partition, try to copa a file larger than 4GB tp this partition.

Actual Results:  
copying stops with an error after 4GB at file size limit of vfat

Expected Results:  
i would like dolphin to warn before start copying

OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.37-ARCH
Compiler: gcc

Comment 1 Frank Reininghaus 2011-02-06 14:12:07 UTC

Thanks for the report! This issue has been reported already.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 198772 ***