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sciserver / scidrive-ui

Web UI for scidrive
http://www.scidrive.org
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Adding "rename" button for files and folders #36

Closed mtaghiza closed 8 years ago

mtaghiza commented 9 years ago

Can't change names of files or folder; could add a "rename" button.

dimm0 commented 9 years ago

There's no rename operation in Swift. The only way to rename is to copy with a new name and remove the source. Implementing rename this way can cause a user to "rename" a large folder and trigger a huge undesired operation of moving files.

jkim485 commented 8 years ago

I think that This should be explained in help page.

jkim485 commented 8 years ago

I agree with your comment that this must be made clear to the users.

I also think that this is a major negative feature. I can’t think of an single system that does not allow file/object renaming – how the thing is internally stored should have nothing to do with how it is displayed.

What are your thoughts on this?

Mike

jkim485 commented 8 years ago

I think that renaming file/folder must be supported as Mike described. however this is implemented under the cover, it has to be done. If it is just difficult to implement it right away, as for now at least users should be warned properly in the help so users do not get confused.

jkim485 commented 8 years ago

Tested on scitest09 and confirmed the fix.