Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 20, 2006 07:35 AM
Every version of Nautilus I have ever used has been buggy. I pick it up, I try it, it breaks, I leave it alone. Recently I installed Ubuntu and the first thing I wanted to do was copy over my personal files from my Slackware partition. OK so I decided to use Nautilus, thinking that my previous experience was some years before so Nautilus should work now. Nautilus couldn't handle it: interestingly it could not copy files with names like internal function names (python?), eg system.c, file.cpp, assert.c, etc. I tried this twice more, cleaing the target directories and using nautilus to copy, same problem every time. Someone is going to try this on a dozen files with similar names and say "works for me". OK. But I was copying 150,000 files. So I deleted the target directories and used the old "cp -Rp" and it worked without any problems. I have also done this with Konq, which was why I was surprised Nautilus barfed, initially thought the files were corrupt.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 20, 2006 07:35 AMEvery version of Nautilus I have ever used has been buggy. I pick it up, I try it, it breaks, I leave it alone. Recently I installed Ubuntu and the first thing I wanted to do was copy over my personal files from my Slackware partition. OK so I decided to use Nautilus, thinking that my previous experience was some years before so Nautilus should work now. Nautilus couldn't handle it: interestingly it could not copy files with names like internal function names (python?), eg system.c, file.cpp, assert.c, etc. I tried this twice more, cleaing the target directories and using nautilus to copy, same problem every time. Someone is going to try this on a dozen files with similar names and say "works for me". OK. But I was copying 150,000 files. So I deleted the target directories and used the old "cp -Rp" and it worked without any problems. I have also done this with Konq, which was why I was surprised Nautilus barfed, initially thought the files were corrupt.
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