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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: In KDE3 when moving a file; Error! instead of Overwrite?
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2002-04-14 0:16:55
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[Bug summary: moving a file/directory to some place where a copy already 
exists says "Error" instead of popping up the rename/overwrite/etc. dialog]

On Sunday 14 April 2002 01:26, David Faure wrote:
> The reason for the breakage was very probably the renaming-speedup change
> (job.cpp revision 1.296), although I'm not 100% sure how the old code worked
> in this case.

Ah.... now I know. It's not that change, but the change mentionned in comment
above that if() test, related to BR #36105 (renaming a dir on a FAT partition, from
lowercase to uppercase, and choosing "Overwrite"  -  don't do this at home with kde-2
or with this patch applied, it deletes the dir!).

FAT really sucks. I'm afraid the only way to fix this properly is to actually detect
FAT partitions, and treat them case-insensitively, as they really are (e.g. in kio_file).
Stephan, do you think this would be ok? Somehow kio_file parsing /etc/fstab
for every copy/move operation sounds very bad though, I guess this would need some
caching :}. ARGL. So much care to take, just because FAT doesn't allow "mv a A" :(

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