#13 Moving files

[Anonymous]

If you drag with right mouse button a file from one partition
to another in the Tracker, and then select "Move here", only
the file is copied. It's not deleted on the source partition.

If you move the file on the same partition, it works fine.
It's only between two different partitions. Both partitions
are BFS, but I don't know if that makes a difference.

[Stefano Ceccherini]

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Axel, is this a bug or a "feature" ? I think sometimes is
irritating when you want to actually MOVE a file to a different
volume.
I had a look to the sources, and it seems a feature (here's the
interesting part of FSutils.cpp), but I can't really understand
why it should behave this way:

// change the move mode if needed
if (moveMode == kMoveSelectionTo &&
srcVolumeDevice != destVolumeDevice)
// move across volumes - copy instead
moveMode = kCopySelectionTo;

[Stefano Ceccherini]

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Anyway, do you plan to fix that behaviour?
If you don't have the time, I can do it (removing such lines
should suffice)

[Jace Cavacini]

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I think this should be considered a "bug" even if it was
intended to be a "feature" because it is an inconsistency and
is indeed telling the user it will do one thing and is actually
doing something else.
-Jace