Nautilus ate my customer's website

[Santiago Erquicia]

Matthew Davidson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Can't find a mention of anything like this in bugzilla, and I'm pretty
> desperate for an answer.
> 
> I stumbled across Nautilus' capacity to "mount" ftp servers, and spent a
> few minutes going "wow, this is cool" while working on a customer's
> website.
> 
> Then I found that a file I was working on was truncated at exactly the
> same spot every time I tried to upload it.

This is a known bug and has been fixed in hoary :-(

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2384

> 
> Odd, I thought, then "unmounted" the volume, and tried first lftp, then
> gftp to upload the file.  In both programs, all of my customer's files
> had apparently disappeared.  An empty directory.
> 
> In rising panic, I tried the website in a browser, and found everything
> was still there.  Tried connecting with Nautilus again, and everything
> was still there.  Still can't completely upload the file, but that is
> now a minor problem compared to my customer's potential reaction next
> time they FTP to their site, and find nothing there.
> 
> Now any guesses as to what's going on, or how to fix it?
> 
> Matthew.
>