[Bug 247980] Re: Firefox/Nautilus losing mtime stamp on file copy to folder

[kpoole]

** Description changed:

- 
- Under 7.10 and Firefox 2, there was a behavior available where an image could be dragged and dropped from a website, not all but some websites, to a folder displayed by Nautilus or the Desktop and the filename and last modified time stamp were preserved in the copy.  Since upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04 and Firefox 3 the filename is still preserved but the last modified time stamp is now updated to the current system time.
+ Under 7.10 and Firefox 2, there was a behavior available where an image
+ could be dragged and dropped from a website, not all but some websites,
+ to a folder displayed by Nautilus or the Desktop and the filename and
+ last modified time stamp were preserved in the copy.  Since upgrading to
+ Ubuntu 8.04 and Firefox 3 the filename is still preserved but the last
+ modified time stamp is now updated to the current system time.
  
  If one uses wget to retrieve the file the last modified time stamp is
  preserved, which indicates that the remote mtime time stamp is still
  accessible, but this is a poor backup to what used to be a simple drag
  and drop operation.
  
  As an example
  http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs9/i/2006/037/6/c/Fancy_Belt_by_baba49.jpg
  can be dragged from Firefox to a folder and gets the current system time
  as the last modified time stamp where a wget preserves the remote mtime
  stamp of 06 Feb 2006 07:22;21 PM.
  
  You may not believe me but I swear these were preserved in the Ubuntu
  7.10 with Firefox 2.
  
  Addition:  As a result of other discussions, I installed Ubuntu 7.10 on
  a spare machine and confirmed that the last modified time stamps were
  being preserved in this drag and drop operation.  I also installed the
  Ubuntu 7.10 available Firefox 3.0 alpha and find the last modified time
  stamps are still preserved.  I haven't found a Nautilus 2.22.3
  backported to 7.10 to continue the test to see if the timestamps are
  lost when Nautilus 2.22.3 is introduced into the situation.  I might
  have to go back to the Nautilus website and get the tar.gz and try to
  install it but that will be when I have some more time to devote to
  this.
  
  Further addition: I have also installed FIrefox 2 on my Ubuntu 8.10
  machine so I can be certain that under Ubuntu 7.10 with Nautilus 2.20.0
  mtime stamps are preserved when copying a file from Firefox 2 or 3 to a
  Nautilus folder and that these same mtime stamps are lost when using
  Firefox 2 or 3 to copy a file to a Nautilus folder in Nautilus 2.22.3
  under Ubuntu 8.04.
+ 
+ Last edit: Sorry to trouble everyone.  We'll just call this a horrible
+ mistake and I'll ask that someone cancel any further action on it.  I
+ can't find a cancelled status to give it.

** Tags removed: firefox nautilus stamp time

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Firefox/Nautilus losing mtime stamp on file copy to folder
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/247980
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