Nautilus file conflict bug Fixed after 8 years

By , Published May 1, 2010

Here's something to look forward to in Meerkat and GNOME 2.31.1: an improved file conflict dialogue.

Currently nautilus just informs that a file with the same name already exists and asks if you want to replace it. Thankfully this has now been rectified (8 years after this bug was opened!)

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Props to Cosimo Cecchi for finally closing this!

Thanks to Isak Frants

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • http://twitter.com/explodingwalrus Carl Draper

    Still quicker than a MS IE patch :D

    • Anonymous

      True, that. xD

    • Anonymous

      True, that. xD

  • http://twitter.com/explodingwalrus Carl Draper

    Still quicker than a MS IE patch :D

  • Anonymous

    Not really what I would consider a bug, but a nice improvement anyhow.

  • Anonymous

    Not really what I would consider a bug, but a nice improvement anyhow.

  • David Raid

    Will this change also be in Nautilus Elementary or just the current and default Nautilus in Ubuntu 10.04?

    • http://ammonkey.posterous.com/ ammonkey

      yes this change will also be committed to nautilus-elementary like all bugs fixs/ improvements from upstream nautilus. nautilus-elementary stick with nautilus “versioning” for the moment.

    • http://ammonkey.posterous.com/ ammonkey

      yes this change will also be committed to nautilus-elementary like all bugs fixs/ improvements from upstream nautilus. nautilus-elementary stick with nautilus “versioning” for the moment.

  • Anonymous

    Finally!

  • Anonymous

    Finally!

  • http://twitter.com/phillipguy phillip griego

    Will this be an automatic update/upgrade in Lucid?

  • http://jado92mx.wordpress.com jado92mx

    of course is not a bug, it was an inprovement issue, but really annoying. I remember I have lost some important files with the old “Replace” dialog in Nautilus… D:

    Greetings!
    JaD!

  • http://twitter.com/anonrock Hasinul Islam Biash

    I think Nautilus is that little bit more user friendly now.

  • Anonymous

    Nice. Even though this actually slows down one of my workflows where I want it to skip and rename it a copy. But in every other case, I know I want this. XD

  • Anonymous

    Nice. Even though this actually slows down one of my workflows where I want it to skip and rename it a copy. But in every other case, I know I want this. XD

  • sunny

    does anyone know what theme is being used in the picture here?

    • Anonymous

      looks like elementary ;)

      • mraz

        Danrabbit knows a little something about that theme haha.

        • noD3

          buggy in lucid though :P
          ugly nautilus, widely separated app indicator icons etc

          • Anonymous

            try from bzr and with Nautilus elementary. Very very sexy now :)

        • noD3

          buggy in lucid though :P
          ugly nautilus, widely separated app indicator icons etc

      • mraz

        Danrabbit knows a little something about that theme haha.

    • Anonymous

      looks like elementary ;)

    • Sherlock

      Its The Best Theme :-)

    • Sherlock

      Its The Best Theme :-)

  • sunny

    does anyone know what theme is being used in the picture here?

  • Anonymous

    Thank god !

  • no asylum

    So I dont have to install Dolphin anymore … yay! … tho I LOVE Dolphin … the less KDE stuff I need to install on a Gnome system the better. Now all we need is a better Brasero/Gnomebaker to compete with KDE.

  • http://twitter.com/gotbletu Bonster

    up next is copy and paste? they havent fix that in forever, is famous =)

  • http://twitter.com/gotbletu Bonster

    up next is copy and paste? they havent fix that in forever, is famous =)

  • Anonymous

    It was not a bug.It was a feature request…

  • Anonymous

    It was not a bug.It was a feature request…

  • That guy

    Better late then never.

  • That guy

    Better late then never.

  • Anonymous

    I wonder if policykit will ever integrated into nautilus (gvfs).
    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=490200 (nautilus)
    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=561443 (gvfs)

  • Anonymous

    I wonder if policykit will ever integrated into nautilus (gvfs).
    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=490200 (nautilus)
    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=561443 (gvfs)

  • Peter

    It is gnome I suppose.
    You will have to make the changes you want yourself, and when you have done them, they won’t be accepted because the maintainer doesn’t like your ideas.

  • Waldir Leôncio

    Nice! After a few improvement-poor releases, Ubuntu seems to be catching some nice momentum! However, I can’t help myself from pointing that Windows Vista was already way ahead of that. It gives you a very useful third option of moving the file but renaming it so it won’t replace the other file (screenshot: http://is.gd/bQTce).

    Unless that’s exactly what “select a new name for the destination” does, it’s not very clear to me.

    • Yi Sun-sin

      Ubuntu is not Gnome, and Gnome is not Ubuntu. That’s an upstream improvement.

      • Waldir Leôncio

        You’re right, kudos goes to the Gnome devs!

        • daas88

          But yeah, it’s just like in windows, but without the rename option.

    • Yi Sun-sin

      Ubuntu is not Gnome, and Gnome is not Ubuntu. That’s an upstream improvement.

  • Waldir Leôncio

    Nice! After a few improvement-poor releases, Ubuntu seems to be catching some nice momentum! However, I can’t help myself from pointing that Windows Vista was already way ahead of that. It gives you a very useful third option of moving the file but renaming it so it won’t replace the other file (screenshot: http://is.gd/bQTce).

    Unless that’s exactly what “select a new name for the destination” does, it’s not very clear to me.

  • Anonymous

    Offtopic:Hotkey to open Nautilus/Dolphin/other file managers?

    This awesome list should help:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_keyboard_shortcuts

    But it’s not listed, does one exist?

  • Anonymous

    Offtopic:Hotkey to open Nautilus/Dolphin/other file managers?

    This awesome list should help:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_keyboard_shortcuts

    But it’s not listed, does one exist?

  • Anonymous

    I can’t quite “YAY” for this one. I see another window popping up at me all the time.

    - like while closing an ssh terminal: Are you sure? This will close things running there, too!
    - like when logging out “You’ll be logged out in 1 minute!”

    These might mean a lot for some people…like the handful of people who use ctrl-alt-backspace for some kind of OTHER means than killing the X-session…but to the rest of us they kinda slow things down.

    • http://dieki.myopenid.com/ Dieki

      This window would already pop up anyway. They just made the window that pops up more descriptive. Read the article.

  • Anonymous

    how to enable this?

  • Anonymous

    how to enable this?

  • LynxSux

    Since this feature is a must in any file manager, I’m sure the developers had been using either Windows or Mac OS X the whole time. Maybe the Nautilus developers are moving to Linux now. Which is good news, I think.

  • Paolo Inaudi

    couldn’t they go other 2000 years without “fixing” this? now, to override things in a folder I have to:
    Press the checkbox do it for all…
    click override
    Press the checkbox do it for all… (yeah, it re-asks it for files after having done for the directory)
    click override.

    Before this, I only have to click join all, and everything was done… I hate this when I saw it the first time on a Vista pc, and I hate this more on Gnome…