Do we need: A folder cannot be dropped into itself

[todd rme]

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Peter Penz <peter.penz19 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/28/2012 08:44 PM, Alex Fiestas wrote:
>>
>> Just that, do we really need to notify the user that a folder can't be
>> drop
>> into itself?
>>
>> The only reason I could find is when you drag more than one folder/file
>> and
>> the action is not performed beacuse of that error. Maybe in that case we
>> could
>> move everything into the folder besides the error?
>
>
> Sorry, I but did not understand your suggestion: If the users drops folder A
> into A - what should be done here instead of showing the error-message?

Here is an example (assuming I am understanding the problem correctly).

Say we have these files in directory a:

a/A
a/B
a/C
a/D

a/A is a folder.  Now say the user selects all of these and drops them
on a/A.  None of the files will be moved because you dropped a/A on
itself.

-Todd