Re: overwriting files in Nautilus

["Nelson Benítez León" <nbenitezl gmail com>]

2008/8/28 Victor Jimenez Jaimez <vjjaimez gmail com>

Hi!

There's something I find missing in Gnome compared to when I used to work with Windows XP (which, overall, I hated). In most file managers, when I want to save or paste a file to a directory that already contains a file with the same name, the file manager shows a dialog box asking if I really want to overwrite the file or not. In windows XP (and in KDE I think), the file manager also gives you information about the file, its size and the date and time when it was modified for the last time. It helps a lot in order to be sure that the file you are overwriting is older that the one you want to save or paste.

But in Nautilus no information of that kind is shown. The application only gives you the options, not the information. To be sure that what you're doing is safe for your data, you have to close the dialog box and check the properties of both files in the contextual menu (right-cliking on both icons). It makes file managing deceptive and, hence, less secure and slower.

I don't think it'd be very complicated to fix, isn't it?

 It's a known issue, see  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47893 , specially read the last comment.

Thank you. It's really the only one thing about Nautilus (and Gnome, for that matter) that I find annoying.

the only one? you're lucky :-) ...