[dolphin] [Bug 506612] New: "Move to Folder" context menu feature is broken, trying to write a nonsensical folder path
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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=506612
Bug ID: 506612
Summary: "Move to Folder" context menu feature is broken,
trying to write a nonsensical folder path
Classification: Applications
Product: dolphin
Version First 25.04.2
Reported In:
Platform: openSUSE
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: major
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: dolphin-bugs-null at kde.org
Reporter: paninomaninodesu at gmail.com
CC: kfm-devel at kde.org
Target Milestone: ---
Created attachment 182964
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SUMMARY
Move to New Folder is creating the folder/file paths wrong, or at least is what
it seems.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. right click a file
2. select move to new folder
3. give new folder a name and try to create it
OBSERVED RESULT
Dolphin gives an error message saying it can't create the folder.
EXPECTED RESULT
A new folder be created and the selected file moved to it.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows:
macOS:
(available in the Info Center app, or by running `kinfo` in a terminal window)
Linux/KDE Plasma: Tumbleweed
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.15
Qt Version: 6.9.1
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I was under the illusion that this was happening, without reason, only on two
folders, and specially annoying because it's the two folders where I actually
use this feature a few times each day.
But it's not the folders, what causes the problem is the files I'm trying to
move.
Those two folders have files with names that causes the problem. Creating a
folder with a file name that contains something like "_00:23:35_158" isn't
allowed, right? That's the problem, it seems when a file have some forbidden
characters in it's file name Dolphin gets confused and tries to use that file
name for the name of the folder instead of the one you gave when Dolphin asked.
If I try to nove a file with a simpler file name than Dolphin is able to create
a new folder and move the file to inside it.
See in the image I annexed with the error message?
The "/Test" which is the name of the new folder comes at the end, after the
name of the file.
On the same image if I rename any of those files and remove the forbidden
characters it works.
At least I think this is the problem, and I think it was working in version
25.4.1, yesterday morning it stopped working without reason (along with video
previews on Info Panel). I checked and Dolphin is version 25.4.2, must have
arrived when I was checking for updates without noticing.
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