Re: panelized items can't be deleted.

[russurquhart1 comcast net]

Hi,


> On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Russ Urquhart wrote:
>
> > I did a find file, and then had the results listed in their own panel.
> > When it tried to delete those files, for each item, it said that the
> > file could not be found. (The name, as displayed in the panel, was
> > abbreviated with the '~' character, and this was also in the name that
> > was displayed as not being found.)
>
> I believe you selected directories and files.  The directories were
> deleted first, so the files in them were deleted before mc tried to delete
> them individually.

Actually I was looking for all occurences of the file finder.dat. I did a find for 'finder.dat'. While the 
file did occurr in directories, the containing directories was not selected for deletion.

> If you want a better answer, describe a test case so that it can be
> reproduced.

My test was finding all occurrences of finder.dat. I would suggest looking for a file that exists in all 
directories and feed that to its own panel.
> > do i need to set a parameter in order to delete these files?
>
> No.  GNU Midnight Commander is interactive software.  It should do what
> the user wants.  Except for some well established cases, such as locale
> and terminal capabilities, the behavior of GNU Midnight Commander should
> be determined by the user's actions.

thats kind of what i thought, but just wanted to make sure!


Thaks for your help!


Russ

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