Amongst my many Dolphin tweaks (love them all, save nepomuk), I've set Dolphin to use a split window. I open just ONE Dolphin window.

For this discussion, I've mounted 2 different drives, one drive for each of the splits in that one Dolphin window. I select a bunch of files AND folders in one side of the split, then click one of the selected items and drag the selection to the other part of the split (still in that one Dolphin window). The menu asks if I want to copy or move the selection and for this post, that decision there makes no difference. It makes no difference (not that I can see) whether I start with one split or the other.

After the menu item is clicked (I choose either 'move' or 'copy'), the selected action begins as expected.

What is NOT expected is when I roll my pointer away from the destination window, I see 'drag selection' is now active. I do NOT see the rectangle of the selection, I only see the split will scroll and files/folders are being highlighted as I move the pointer about. I've already had one event where I managed to copy a folder into itself. Some how. I think I've escaped unscathed from that time warp.

Anyhow, when this happens, I am NOT pressing a mouse button, I am NOT holding a modifier key and when I select the files in the source window, I have seen this problem occur no matter whether I initially selected the items using a drag selection method or when I initially selected the items using ctrl-A to select all or when I initially selected the items using the 'hover over the item and click the plus sign' method.

I'd think that this problem should have been discussed before if it were a widespread problem; I'd report this as a bug, but I suspect that I'm alone in seeing this and wonder if I could be configuring Dolphin in a very unusual manner and thus I am causing my own problem.

If you want to see me post my config file, just tell me where it resides, and I'll be happy to post it.

I would post a bug report. Make sure to search for duplicates first, though.

And now I just found my Trash was full when I added 2 files of about 10 megs each to the trashcan. I opened the trash and I see a dozen of the dot directories in there (.mozilla, .qmmp, .sane, etcetera) and as many files were also in there (.xsessions-errors, .bash-history, etcetera).

I would never put those in the trash by deliberate action, so these must have been placed there by other means. I restored the files and folders (the .xsession-errors file wouldn't restore so the files were not moved during this login). Now I have folders named 0-.mozilla and .mozilla, and so forth. This is getting pretty dangerous, so off I go to search these forums for where I need to go to post bugs for Dolphin.....

Bugs can be posted at bugs.kde.org.