Bug 407509

Summary: "File already exists" dialog does not show up when you try to rename a file using the name of a file already present on desktop
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kio Reporter: Patrick Silva <bugseforuns>
Component: generalAssignee: Pan Zhang <zhangpan>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: kde, kdelibs-bugs, med.medin.2014, nate, plasma-bugs, yusq77
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 6.4.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/-/commit/e2869783a06c4a31a7f636b861f79bdffd8d79f8 Version Fixed In: 6.18
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Patrick Silva 2019-05-13 20:08:57 UTC 
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. set your desktop do folder view layout
2. copy two files of the same type to desktop
3. try to rename one of the two files using the same name as the other file that you copied to desktop

OBSERVED RESULT
plasma shows the error message "Could not rename file..."

EXPECTED RESULT
plasma shows the same "File already exists" dialog that appears when you follow the steps 2 and 3 using Dolphin

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 5.15.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.57.0
Qt Version: 5.13.0 beta3
Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2019-05-23 15:18:17 UTC 
Dolphin uses KIO::moveAs which prompts to rename if already exists, whereas Folder View goes through KDirModel which uses KIO::rename which complains when it already exists and doesn't work when direct rename isn't possible.
I guess KDirModel should be changed?
Comment 2 Patrick Silva 2023-05-27 13:15:37 UTC 
*** Bug 470333 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 yushuoqi 2025-08-18 08:14:00 UTC 
@pan You can look at this question first.
Comment 4 Bug Janitor Service 2025-08-27 02:14:40 UTC 
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/-/merge_requests/1981
Comment 5 Pan Zhang 2025-08-27 02:21:19 UTC 
I have reproduced the issue and submitted a merge request.
Comment 6 Akseli Lahtinen 2025-09-05 05:47:15 UTC 
Git commit e2869783a06c4a31a7f636b861f79bdffd8d79f8 by Akseli Lahtinen, on behalf of Pan Zhang.
Committed on 05/09/2025 at 05:32.
Pushed by akselmo into branch 'master'.

KDirModel: use moveAs instead of Rename when editing file name
When renaming a file on the desktop to an existing filename, the operation previously failed with a generic error instead of showing the expected "file already exists" dialog. This change ensures consistent behavior with renaming in the file manager.
FIXED-IN: 6.18

M  +2    -1    src/widgets/kdirmodel.cpp

https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/-/commit/e2869783a06c4a31a7f636b861f79bdffd8d79f8