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)
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.
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
Thanks for the quick reply.
No problem ;) BTW, this includes 4.11.0 too
Can I get this bug in a "Confirmed" state?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 198772 ***