Public bug reported:
I recently lost a directory full of valuable files. I'm running ubuntu
16.04 and using nautilus 3.14.3
Here's how to replicate this bug. From a terminal window starting in my
home directory:
mkdir useful
cd useful
touch stuff1.txt
touch stuff2.txt
cd ../Desktop
ln -s ../useful/ useful
Now I have a symbolic link on my desktop "useful" that links to
directory "useful" containing two files.
>From nautilus:
- Go to Desktop, select the link useful
- press Ctrl-X to copy
- Go to Home
- press Ctrl-V to paste
- dialog box appears: Merge folder "useful"
- press Merge button (the default)
directory useful has now been replaced with a symbolic link pointing to
itself, and all its contents are gone.
Now in nautilus I press Ctrl-Z to undo. Symbolic link "useful"
reappears on the Desktop, but the target folder is not reconstructed.
Why is this a important bug:
1. Merge dialog gives no indication that the source is a symbolic link.
Instead it asks the user if wants to merge the files in two folders.
2. Continuing with the merge is the default option.
3. After the merge the symbolic link survives and the folder and its
contents are utterly gone. They cannot be found in the trash.
4. Undo does not restore the folder or its files, just relocates the
symbolic link.
** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: High
Status: New
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Title:
merging symbolic link with target folder of same name destroys folder
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