Comment 7 for bug 486929

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From: Alexander Larsson
To: Adi Roiban
Subiect: Re: xdg-user-dirs-gtk move/rename folders
Data: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:25:32 +0100

On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 16:57 +0200, Adi Roiban wrote:
> Hi
>
> I could not find the xdg-user-dirs-gtk in bugzilla.gnome.org.

Yeah, there seem to be none. I guess we should add one.

> Can you please take a look at this bug reported in Ubuntu?
> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu-translations/+bug/486929
>
> It is request for also moving the content of previous folders when
> updating the language.

This is intentionally not done, due to the large risks involved with
automatically moving users files. There can be errors (conflicts, i/o
errors, etc) and there may be cases where the move didn't do exactly
what the user expected.

However, I know it was discussed that we should at least bring up a
dialog that describes the migration a bit more in details (what folders
got moved where) to help the users handle the migration better.