Overwriting files but not extended attributes

Hi everyone,

I was perfoming some tests and noticed some TeamSite behaviour which I would consider a bug. When I overwrite one file with another, the extended attributes are not copied and the old values remain. I wanted to know if anyone else is observing this behaviour and wether they consider this a bug.

Here's a detailed view of what's going on.

I have two directories under a workarea we'll call A and B. In each director we have a file called y.txt which contains different content cA for A/y.txt and cB for B/y.txt. The files also contains a different set of extended attributes eA for A/y.txt and eB B/y.txt.

Now I move or copy A/y.txt to B/y.txt and overwrite. I expect the new B/y.txt file to have content cA and eA. In reality I'm observing that cA is copied over, but eB remains.

Any feedback would be helpful.

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nipper

Copy does not copy attributes. Copy To does, however it is meant to copy from one WA to another.

Net-net I do not think it is a bug, it is specified behavior. You may not like that behavior but I really doubt IW will consider this a bug.

You can place a FR for this, but don't hold your breath.

Andy

g_sal

Well this specified behaviour is highly unintuitive, especially if you track the FSE events. A move command is essentially DestroyFSE: b/y.txt followed by a RenameFSE a/y.txt -> b/y.txt. Based on these events you'd suspect the extended attributes would be wiped out before the rename.