Re: [gcmd-dev] Re: file root thing

[Piotr Eljasiak]

> Another example...i wanted to move a file into the subfolder 'Arts'.
> After pressing F6, i just typed in: Arts (to overwrite the default).
> The files disappeared, and i could not find out where it ended so far - 
> neither in the folder 'Arts', nor was it still in it's place, nor in the 
> opposite panes dir, nor / or ~ or wherever. All checked from commandline 
> exclude monitoring issues.
> 
> I created another file to reproduce the error. However, this time the 
> feedback was 'Error while copying to / (this is the border of the textbox so 
> i'm not sure if something's truncated here) -- Access denied.'
> I retried it with different versions (like ./Arts or Arts/) but always the 
> same. (Of course i've write permissions to the folder, it's a standard user 
> folder and i use it all day)
> 
> Then, after some 2 minutes or so, (while writing this mail), wondering if i 
> did something different at first try, i retried it again just the same way as 
> before. And again the file just disappeared, no feedback, no log, and again i 
> couldn't find it anywhere afterwards.
> 
> Going on, i just activated full logging and gave it another try. This time, a 
> gcmd commandline of 'touch AAAtest2AAA created a directory of that name 
> (according to the gcmd view). 
> Here's the first occurrence of the filename in the logs:
> (i repeated the command when i couldn't see the file at first glance)

I believe I've fixed the problem. gcmd now uses full absolute paths in
F5/F6 dialogs for mounted devices (rev. #1798 & #1799).

Please do test - if there is no regression now, I'll release 1.2.6 on
Sunday.


Pitr