File metadata are lost after renaming/moving nonlocal file

Submitted by Brent Baxter

Assigned to gvf..@..e.bugs

Description

The first part of this bug is easy to demonstrate:

Create a text file, add a note. The note icon appears as it should. Rename the file and note icon disappears as does the note. Change the filename back to the original name and the note reappears

A second manifestation occurs when working with remote file systems:

Connect to the remote file system via SSH (sftp protocol) Create a file and add a note to it. Drag the file to another remote folder and the note disappears

ON the other hand, if I:

Copy the remote file to the clipboard & paste it into the other remote folder then the note survives.

I am running Ubuntu 9.10. The remote files are on another Ubuntu 9.10 system that runs our family web site (apache, MySQL, ...) The connection between them was created using the Nautilus "Connect to Server" facility

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