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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 112428] New: konqueror refuses to move broken symbolic links
From:       C Sincock <csbugreg () netspace ! net ! au>
Date:       2005-09-11 14:00:24
Message-ID: 20050911160021.112428.csbugreg () netspace ! net ! au
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           Summary: konqueror refuses to move broken symbolic links
           Product: konqueror
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Gentoo Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: konq-bugs kde org
        ReportedBy: csbugreg netspace net au


Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.1)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
OS:                Linux

Konqueror seems to check (require) the target of a symlink to exist before allowing \
the symlink to be _moved_. copying symlinks seems to work fine. The problem exists \
with both relative and absolute symlinks.

how to reproduce:
1. create a test directory structure:
$ mkdir /tmp/symlinktest
$ cd /tmp/symlinktest
$ mkdir dira
$ mkdir dirb
$ mkdir dirc
$ touch testfile
$ mkdir dirc/dird
$ cd dira
$ ln -s ../testfile
2. open konqueror and drag(move) the testfile symlink
   from dira to dirb.
 expected: it should work (the symlink should be moved).
 actual: it does work 
3. open konqueror and drag(move) the testfile symlink
   from dirb to dird (which is within dirc)
 expected: it should work (even though the link will become invalid).
 actual: it does work
4. (this is the step that fails) open konqueror and drag(move) 
  the symlink from dird back into dira/
 expected: it should work - the symlink should be moved into dira/
 actual: konqueror refuses to move, complaining that
  'The file or folder /tmp/symlinktest/dirc/dird/testfile does not exist.'

Things of note:
  the path shown in the error dialog is that of the symlink itself, but the 
  problem occurs when the _target_ of the symlink does not exist.

  A simpler test to show the problem is just to create a symlink to a file,
  delete the file, and then try to move the symlink. The extra steps above
  are to hilight that the part of the move that konqueror has trouble with 
  is the actual _use_ of a the broken symlink, not the creation of one.
  for example, step 3. creates a broken symlink (as it should).

I am pretty sure this is a recently introduced bug
because I have quite often built up a dir of symlinks 
to stuff I want to burn to dvd, then burnt that directory,
deleted the originals, and then moved the symlinks 
into a 'burnt' directory to act as a record of what I have 
already burnt.

workaround:
  because deleting symlinks works, and copying them works,
  a (laborious) workaround is to copy the symlinks you want
  to move and then delete the originals.


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