Thunar copies selected files instead of moving within the same folder in NTFS partition

Submitted by Junaid Ahmed

Assigned to Xfce Bug Triage

Link to original bug (#14376)

Description

Thunar copies selected files instead of moving within the same folder on NTFS formatted partition.

Steps to produce: Enter into any mounted NTFS partition. Create a folder named A. Paste bunch of files in it. Now create another folder called B within the folder A. Select all the contents within the folder A except the folder B(means select all the files in folder A, but do not select the folder B). Now drag and drop the files over folder B. You'll see that all the selected files is still present in folder A. Now when you enter folder B you'll see the files have been copied there instead of moving. Which is illogical and wastes space by creating duplicate copies of files within the same device/partition.

If the partition is formatted in ext4 or FAT32(tested using a removable flash drive) file system this behaviour doesn't occur and files in foler A gets moved(instead of copied) in folder B.

OS: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS DE: Xfce 4.12 (Xubuntu)

I am aware of the same bug reported here- https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11526. But it was marked as resolved more than 3 years ago and I can't reopen it.

Version: 1.6.15