[QA] client empties external storage when trying to rename

[jnweiger]

Seen in desktop client 2.10.0 on Linux using selective sync.

• Prepare an external storage named SFTP on the server. Add a file doc into the external storage.
• Connect client to server and wait for sync to complete.
• By default, the client would not sync external storages. Enable and wait until sync is completed.
• Check on the server web-ui: An external storage cannot be renamed by the user. OK
• Using the desktop file browser: Change the name of SFTP to SFTP_renamed
• The client re-creates a local folder SFTP after a few seconds. We now have both, SFTP and SFTP_renamed. BAD.

• The user does not see any error message.

  

• A new folder SFTP_renamed gets created in the users's home. All content from SFTP is moved there. The external storage SFTP is now empty, both on the server and on the desktop. BAD.

Expected behaviour:

• The client logs an error message and does not change anything on the server.
• Suggest to handle this case the same as when trying to rename a readonly shared folder.

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E.g. In case of a readonly-share, the client logs a 403 Forbidden error and blacklists the locally renamed folder: OK(!)

[TheOneRing]

The prohibited move should result in a duplication, nothing we can do here, same for all renames of read only folders. However the files are supposed to be re downloaded.....

Do we have other cases where only renaming a folder is prohibited but we can delete/modify the content?

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