Bug 2206

Summary: New folder silently creates parent (1GEAI0A)
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Nick Edgar <n.a.edgar>
Component: UIAssignee: Kevin Haaland <Kevin_Haaland>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 Keywords: usability
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Windows 98   
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Description Nick Edgar CLA 2001-10-10 22:29:20 EDT
- New project A
- in filesystem, delete A
- in Navigator, select A and create new folder B
- it works, and in the filesystem it has recreated A, under which is B

Is this as it should be?  I think this behaviour is actually preferable to giving an error dialog.
But maybe it should warn that the parent folder has been deleted, and offer to recreate it,
giving the user the chance to cancel it.
Otherwise, it feels like the environment has discovered that it was out of synch, but hasn't bothered
to tell the user.  If there were other resources in the parent, they would still be showing in the navigator,
but would not exist in the filesystem.  If it prompts, it could do a refresh local too if the user accepts recreating the parent.


NOTES:

NE (5/25/01 12:25:52 PM) See also 1GEAICC: ITPUI:WIN98 - New folder complains if folder already exists in file system
Comment 1 DJ Houghton CLA 2001-10-29 17:59:19 EST
PRODUCT VERSION:
110 JDK


Comment 2 Nick Edgar CLA 2002-01-25 22:13:17 EST
Current behaviour is fine.