Bug 119005

Summary:	nautilus: dangling symlinks are undeletable
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec>
Component:	GNOME	Assignee:	Federico Mena Quintero <federico>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P3 - Medium
Version:	Final
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Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Stanislav Brabec 2005-09-27 12:46:18 UTC

How to reproduce:

ln -s "file which does not exist" "Desktop/dangling symlink"

There is no way to delete this symlink by Nautilus. Even if it disappears
sometimes, it will soon appear back.

Comment 1 Federico Mena Quintero 2005-09-30 17:22:57 UTC

Yeah, this is trivial to reproduce.  I'm on it.

Comment 2 Federico Mena Quintero 2006-02-07 00:31:29 UTC

This was fixed, and indeed it works for me on 2.12.2.

2005-09-19  Christian Neumair  <chris@gnome-de.org>

	* libnautilus-private/nautilus-file-operations.c:
	(nautilus_file_operations_copy_move),:
	Try to use the trash associated with a symlink's parent directory if
	resolution fails because of broken symlink when moving symlink to
	trash.