Bug 119005 - nautilus: dangling symlinks are undeletable
Summary: nautilus: dangling symlinks are undeletable
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: GNOME (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: All All
: P3 - Medium : Major
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Assignee: Federico Mena Quintero
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Reported: 2005-09-27 12:46 UTC by Stanislav Brabec
Modified: 2006-02-07 00:31 UTC (History)
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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.