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[Sebastien Bacher <seb128@xxxxxxxxxx>]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 67691 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/67691

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 67691
   Nautilus can leave half-copied files on the target on error or cancel

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/810991

Title:
  Canceled or interrupted file copy leaves leaves incomplete files

Status in Nautilus:
  Invalid
Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Nautilus doesn't manage well the interruption of copy process:
  If I start copying something using nautilus and then I cancel the process, what has been copied for this time remains.
  This is useless, because an incomplete file is unusable, infact Windows Explorer, Finder and Thunar (as of June 2010: http://forum.ubuntu-it.org/index.php/topic,389663.msg3026519.html#msg3026519) erase the incomplete files.

  This behaviour is very unfriendly because if the user repeats again the
  operation later nautilus could not disinguish between complete and incomplete files, forcing the user to repeat the whole operation overwriting all files or checking them one by one.
  The problem could also lead to data loss, if the user isn't aware of this behaviour, he may think that all the file listed in the target folder have been correctly copied and skip them when repeating the operation.

  OS: Ubuntu 11.04 (debian testing and arch x86_64 too)
  gnome-desktop 3.0.2
  nautilus 3.0.2

  It's different from bug #67691 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/67691)
  Because the problem of #67691 is the error message, which now has been removed, so if before the user could know what's happened, now can't, so it's even worse.

  The problem is reported also in GNOME's bugzilla:
  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/process_bug.cgi

  This is not really a bug rather a "feature bug".

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