Bug 167998 - Gnome shows wrong path for symlinked folder
Summary: Gnome shows wrong path for symlinked folder
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: nautilus
Version: 4
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Alexander Larsson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-09-10 09:39 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-09-04 15:19:21 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2005-09-10 09:39:56 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050719 Epiphany/1.6.5

Description of problem:
This is potentially serious since the user may delete files because Gnome tells him that the files are in a different place to where they really are.

I have a mounted usb drive. The drive contains backups.

$ ls -la /media/usbdisk/Folder/Desktop
drwxr-xr-x   2 user user 4096 Sep 10 12:16 .
drwxrwx---  55 user user 4096 Sep 10 12:23 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 user user   69 Sep 10 12:36 .directory
lrwxrwxrwx   1 user user   18 Sep 10 12:45 Downloads -> /home/user/Downloads

In nautilus, I go to /media/usbdisk/Folder/Desktop
Nautilus then shows me that I am at /media/usbdisk/Folder/Desktop/Downloads, when I am really at /home/user/Downloads (and nautilus shows me  the contents of /home/user/Downloads)

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Comment 1 Alexander Larsson 2006-09-04 15:19:21 UTC
This is an old discussion in the nautilus developer community, both sides have
their issues, but the current behaviour is what was decided on.


Comment 2 Need Real Name 2006-09-04 16:28:17 UTC
A bit like how going to "Computer", then selecting a drive, then going up a
level takes to you /media/. The users don't have a clue!

Please can you provide a link to the discussion?

Comment 3 Alexander Larsson 2006-09-05 14:38:34 UTC
For instance:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2003-January/msg00030.html

Comment 4 Need Real Name 2006-09-05 16:48:12 UTC
Thanks.


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