Ticket #4247 (new defect)
Opened 4 years ago
Cannot go up a level when an upper directory has been deleted
Reported by: | birdie | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | trivial | Milestone: | Future Releases |
Component: | mc-core | Version: | master |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
Branch state: | no branch | Votes for changeset: |
Description
Steps to reproduce
- mkdir -p /tmp/1/2
- navigate to /tmp/1/2 in MC
- rm -rf /tmp/1
- try to go up a level in MC -> Error "Cannot change directory"
To be honest I don't know what the best solution could be. I just don't like the fact that the user is stuck in this situation. Of course you can type "cd /some/other/dir" but many don't know about it. You can also exit MC.
Maybe MC could show a prompt, "MC cannot go up a level, do you want to enter the root directory instead, Yes/No?".
Or maybe try going even higher-level directories but that's a recipe for disaster. Imagine it's a deep network path, /mnt/net/1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8 and each attempt of opening a directory could lead to a 2 minutes time out - not good.
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