[Thunar-dev] 'Retry' button on copy/move/delete fail

[Harold Aling]

Ben Ford wrote:
> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>   
>> David Tenser wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Harold Aling wrote:
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> When copying/deleting/moving multiple files, it could be that you have 
>>>> insufficient rights to read one or more files. Thunar allows you to 
>>>> choose between cancel, skip and skip all...
>>>>
>>>> In this case I'd like to fire up a terminal, fix the permissions and 
>>>> hit "Retry", but that button doesn't exist! ;)
>>>>
>>>> May I file a feature request for a retry button?
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> Wouldn't it be more convenient if you didn't have to fire up a terminal? 
>>> That sounds pretty counter-intuitive to me. A better solution would be 
>>> to ask for the administrator password and /then/ retry.
>>>     
>>>       
>
> Only for this specific example.  What if you're copying files from a 
> network share and are having network problems?  The root password won't 
> help much here, but firing up a terminal, fixing the problem and then 
> retrying would do the trick.
>
> There are lots of reasons that a file operation could fail and having 
> root privileges won't fix them all.
>   
Ok, so a 'retry' button is the only simple solution/workaround if 
determining if the root password would do any good will be too difficult?

-H-


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