Nautilus ate my customer's website

[Le grand pinguin]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 11:16:14PM +1100, Matthew Davidson wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 17:45 +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> > A wise man once said " there are two types of people in this world.
> > Those who do regular backups, and those who have never had a disk
> > failure" :-)
> 
> This is not an excuse in this instance.  

I assume it was never meant to be one ...

> You might as well say "all
> operating systems get the blue screen of death.  It's your fault you
> don't save your work every thirty seconds."  An FTP client that kills
> megabytes of files while trying to edit a single 14kb file is a broken
> FTP client.  Saying "nyah, nyah, nyah, you should have done a backup"
> isn't an answer.  A backup with what?  Not the Nautilus FTP client,
> that's for sure.
> 
> As I said, I can still access the files via Nautilus.  In fact, I was
> able to back them up _after_ the disaster.  I just can't access the
> files using any other FTP client.  Yes, that's after rebooting and every
> other trick in the Windows first level support book ("Is the computer
> plugged in?  Are you wearing clean underpants?" etc.).

Rebooting what? What are the symptoms in the other ftp clients? What
server software do you comunicate with? What's the server log saying`

> Something
> seriously weird is going on, and I'm interested in knowing what and why.

that's pretty damn hard wothout any clear description of the symptoms - and
for client-server interaction one needs the symptoms on _both_ sides.

> 
> A wise man might one day say "relying on some cool feature of GNOME to
> actually work as promised can be a career killer."

What makes you so shure that this is the fault of GNOME? (Carefull. i don't
claim that it isn't - i'm just weary of jumping onto _one_ waggon too early.
I've often enough seen people spend an increadible amount "debugging" A when
they should have looked at B ...).

 So, what does se server log say?

  Cheers, Ralf Mattes
> 
> Matthew.
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