Bug 324384

Summary: Dolphin should warn about impossible actions on certain FS
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] kio Reporter: Alexander Nestorov <alexandernst>
Component: generalAssignee: David Faure <faure>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: adawit, alexandernst, frank78ac, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version: 4.14.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Alexander Nestorov 2013-09-02 09:07:52 UTC
Dolphin should warn about some operations that aren't supported by the FS. For example, copying a 8GB file to a FAT32 drive will always fail (because FAT32 can't handle such a big file), so instead of trying to copy it, Dolphin should halt the action, explaining why it can't be done.

Another example: Some FS don't support some characters in the file name (NTFS doesn't support ¿?/ and a few others, EXT* doesn't support /). Dolphin should warn about such unsupported characters instead of writing them (as writing them may cause volume soft-failure, another OS not being able to read the volume, or any other bugs).



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Copy a +4GB file.
2. Paste to a FAT32 volume
3. Error
Actual Results:  
Dolphin fails after copying ~4gb of the file

Expected Results:  
Dolphin should halt the operation instead of trying to do it (as it will fail always)
Comment 1 Frank Reininghaus 2013-09-02 21:04:08 UTC
Thanks for the bug report, but I think that this belongs to KIO (the library that handles moving/copying files for us).

If this issue is still present in Dolphin 4.11.0 or later (please *never* file bug reports without providing the version), just let us know, and we can reassign the report.
Comment 2 Alexander Nestorov 2013-09-02 21:31:50 UTC
Yes, perhaps KIO is better.
Anyways, this has been present in *all* version since *ever*. I mean, that bug (and the other one that I reported right after this one) have been present in (at least) KDE since 1.0
Comment 3 Frank Reininghaus 2013-09-02 21:36:27 UTC
Thanks for the quick reply.
Comment 4 Alexander Nestorov 2013-09-02 21:37:02 UTC
No problem ;)
BTW, this includes 4.11.0 too
Comment 5 Alexander Nestorov 2015-02-02 02:21:02 UTC
Can I get this bug in a "Confirmed" state?
Comment 6 Nate Graham 2018-05-03 21:43:19 UTC

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