| Summary: | Copying files within Dolphin silently loses tags, ratings and comments | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] dolphin | Reporter: | tagwerk19 |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | kfm-devel, nate |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 19.12.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Neon | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 116617 *** Hmmm. Seems to be oft reported... Bug 342152 picks up an issue where moving items between partitions also loses the xattr data. Added a vote... Looks like there's work here... https://phabricator.kde.org/D17816 |
SUMMARY: Copying a file in Dolphin from one (filesystem) folder to another (filesystem) folder does not copy the 'xattr' tags STEPS TO REPRODUCE: 1. Open Dolphin and right click on a file; select "Properties" and open the "Details" tab. 2. Add a "Tag", a "Comment" and give the file a rating. Click OK to close 3. Copy the file (a drag-and-copy within Dolphin) to another folder and check the properties of the copied file. OBSERVED RESULT: Attributes such as tags, rating and comment are not copied EXPECTED RESULT: Not sure what I should have expected :-) It's clear that a command line 'cp' historically does not copy the xattr. However moving a file (with mv or moving within Dolphin) keeps the details. A drag-and-copy within dolphin from one tag folder to another _keeps_ the existing details and adds the new tag. 'Embedded' attributes (like EXIF data) are always copied as they are part of the file. A drag-and-copy within dolphin however (silently) loses the xattr tags. People's "expectations" might be different for the different sorts of information - however if I'd added comments to a file I would 100% expect that these are copied with the file. DESIRED STATE On balance; Dolphin should seek to preserve the xattr on copy (and indeed on backup/archiving) SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS: Dolphin 19.12.2 from Neon 5.18 KDE Plasma 5.18.2 KDE Frameworks 5.67.0 Qt 5.14.1