On Wednesday, 29 June 2022 03:38:47 CEST William Melgaard wrote: > * What led up to the situation? > Within Dolphin, a folder was highlighted. This folder was a development > folder congaing read-only backup files. I clicked on a file that was > obsolete, and instrcuted Dolphin to <delete>. I did not notice that > clicking on the obsolete file did not un-highlight the development folder. > > * What was the outcome of this action? > Both the obsolete file and the development file were deleted entirely.
> * What outcome did you expect instead? > A notice of failure because of attempt to delete a read-only file https://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2021/08/msg00001.html is a discussion about being able to write a read-only file and that was resolved upstream here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440986 While not exactly the same, it does seem similar. And while its behavior seems *technically* correct, I can understand it is undesirable and unexpected.
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