https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240122
Dotan Cohen <kde-2011...@dotancohen.com> changed:
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--- Comment #2 from Dotan Cohen <kde-2011...@dotancohen.com> ---
> If it fails on one symlink, why would you want to auto-fail for all symlinks?
If I know that all symlinks point to the same unmounted filesystem, then there
is no reason to ask the user for each symlink individually.
> Surely some of them would work, no?
Not if that filesystem is unavailable!
> And wouldn't this leave the copied files in a weird, uncertain state?
No. The remaining files would be copied just fine.
I reported this bug eight years ago, so details are fuzzy, but the use case was
a professional photographer who connects a few USB devices (say, phones or
cameras used to photograph a wedding) and "copies" via symlinks all the photos
from that device into a folder. Then when she is done deciding what will stay
and what will go (after much "copying" and deleting, hence the use of symlinks)
she then connects all the devices and performs a real copy from her symlinks to
a device to send to printing. The process could take much time and some of the
equipment might be in use on another project until she gets around to the last
step.
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