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Dragging a desktop icon copies the file instead of moving it.
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RESOLVED: DUPLICATE
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Xfdesktop
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Description Scott Enderle 2007-12-05 02:08:27 CET
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In certain situations, dragging an icon to or from the Desktop copies the file rather than moving it. For example: when I drag a file icon into a folder on the desktop, xfdesktop copies the file into the folder but leaves the original on the desktop. Likewise, when I drag a file from a thunar window to the desktop, the file gets copied to the desktop, but the original file remains. Needless to say, this breaks the standard icon-as-single-file idiom. 

Obviously this only applies when xfdesktop is in "show file/launcher icons" mode. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open $HOME in thunar and drag a file from the thunar window to the desktop. 
2. Create a folder on the desktop and drag the file from the desktop to the new folder.
3. There will now be three copies of the file. 

Sometimes dragging a desktop file into a thunar window also leaves a copy behind, but this second related bug is not always repeatable. 

Actual Results:  
Three copies of the file are created, one in the original folder, one on the desktop, and one in the new folder. 

Expected Results:  
Only one copy of the file should have existed, and it should have been moved from $HOME to $HOME/Desktop and then to $HOME/Desktop/New Folder.
Comment 1 Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail) 2007-12-05 02:16:18 CET

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2490 ***

Bug #3719

Reported by:
Scott Enderle
Reported on: 2007-12-05
Last modified on: 2009-07-14

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