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file manager confuses files and directories of the same name
Status:
CLOSED: FIXED

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Description adam.biernacki 2006-11-13 23:38:24 CET
1. create a directory named "whatever"
2. in this directory create an empty file named "whatever"
3. click the file, ctrl+x
4. go up one level to the directory containing the directory "whatever" and try to ctrl+v
the file manager doesn't distinguish between a file and a directory of the same name, so it wants to overwrite the directory with the file (absurd, isn't it?)
Comment 1 Benedikt Meurer editbugs 2006-11-14 07:55:09 CET
This has nothing to do with the file manager. A directory is just a special kind of file, which contains a list of name/inode mappings. So, in the Unix world, directories are indeed files and as such, your mapping of names to inodes cannot have two entries for the same name, for obvious reasons.
Comment 2 Benedikt Meurer editbugs 2006-11-14 07:56:04 CET
BTW: The Thunar manual contains a brief introduction to Unix file systems, which you might want to read to get started.

Bug #2580

Reported by:
adam.biernacki
Reported on: 2006-11-13
Last modified on: 2009-07-17

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Assignee:
Jannis Pohlmann
CC List:
0 users

Version

Version:
0.5.0rc2

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