Impossible to replace file on pendrive without deleting

Bug #1417638 reported by Artur
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Bug Description

Suppose there is a file abc.7z of 551 MB size on pendrive, you'd like to replace it with a new one, same name, same location, size 552 MB. Pendrive reports 353 MB free space, so you have 551+353=904 MB space to copy a 552 MB file. Nautilus refuses to replace this file with a comment "It requires 199 MB more free space to copy". I have to delete the file, then it is possible to copy a new version.

Nautilus should consider current size of file existing on the pendrive when calculating free space required to replace this file. In a terminal cp command replaces the file without a problem.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu15
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-29.39-generic 3.16.7-ckt2
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Feb 3 16:26:22 2015
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-visible-columns' b"['name', 'size', 'date_modified', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions']"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'date_modified', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'mime_type', 'where', 'type', 'date_accessed']"
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
mtime.conffile..etc.xdg.autostart.nautilus.autostart.desktop: 2014-03-20T22:35:25.525357

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