5187 – Drag and drop fails if destination folder has spaces in its name

Drag and drop fails if destination folder has spaces in its name

Status:

RESOLVED: WONTFIX

Priority:
Medium

Severity:
normal

Product:
Xarchiver

Component:

general

Comments

Description Zsolt Fabok 2009-04-04 11:17:04 CEST

Please see description and attachments at
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262519

Comment 1 Giuseppe Torelli 2009-04-25 18:42:46 CEST

*** Bug 5295 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Sasha Medvedev 2009-08-03 16:49:19 CEST

I suppose I have related issue. Thunar archive plugin show error message when I add folder with spaces. When I install squeeze insted xarchiver error message disapear.

Comment 3 Jaromír Cápík 2012-01-23 19:55:02 CET

Created attachment 4123 
xarchiver-0.5.2-whitespaces_in_path.patch

Hello.

I just created a patch for the issue ...
The generated command was missing quotation marks in the target path ... 
The attached patch fixes the issue in my case ...

Regards,
Jaromir.

Comment 4 Jaromír Cápík 2012-01-23 20:18:13 CET

Created attachment 4124 
xarchiver-0.5.2-drag-n-drop_escaped_path.patch

The following patch fixes the issue better ... works for all characters which
need to be escaped ...

Comment 5 Jaromír Cápík 2012-01-23 20:51:26 CET

Created attachment 4125 
xarchiver-0.5.2-drag-n-drop_escaped_path.patch

The previous patch could produce unwanted memory leaks by leaving the original unescaped path unfreed.

Comment 6 Robby Workman editbugs

2014-11-16 09:29:03 CET

Xarchiver is no longer hosted on the xfce repos - it's now at http://xarchiver.sourceforge.net/
If this bug is still valid, please file it there.

Bug #5187

Reported by:
Zsolt Fabok

Reported on: 2009-04-04
Last modified on: 2014-11-16

Duplicates (1):

5295 Drag 'n' drop extract fails!

People

Assignee:
Giuseppe Torelli

CC List:
6 users

Version

Version:
0.5.2

Target Milestone:
0.5.0

Attachments

xarchiver-0.5.2-whitespaces_in_path.patch (1.36 KB, patch) 2012-01-23 19:55 CET , Jaromír Cápík	no flags
xarchiver-0.5.2-drag-n-drop_escaped_path.patch (780 bytes, patch) 2012-01-23 20:18 CET , Jaromír Cápík	no flags
xarchiver-0.5.2-drag-n-drop_escaped_path.patch (885 bytes, patch) 2012-01-23 20:51 CET , Jaromír Cápík	no flags

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