Ubuntu :: Nautilus Deletes Files Without Warning / Fix It?
Nov 14, 2010
I've noticed since upgrading to Maverick that nautilus has become very buggy and crashes quite a bit (I've noticed it tends to happen during multiple file transfers but really it happens often and not only because of transfers).
While I've been able to tolerate this crashiness, today I came across a problem that is very distressing. If I have two files in a folder and I rename one so that it has the same filename as the other, nautilus does not display an error message. Instead what seems to happen is that it retains one file and deletes the other permanently (There seems to be nothing in the trash as far as I can tell).
Has anyone come across this error before? If you have, I'd really appreciate any advice on how to fix it.
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May 4, 2011
I built a script that downloads my podcasts using Gpodder into the directory /HOME/SHARED/PODCASTS/ (with a subdirectory for each podcast)The script then selects the latest episode and copies it over to a target directory (it empies the target directory first and copies over everything) I want to use RSYNC to make sure the 'not so fresh' episodes get deleted and the "fresh" episodes get copied over. Then dropbox can sync the "new" files over to the cloud where i can access them via my ipad/iphone (whole other story).The thing is : i've replaced the cp command with the RSYNC command and now the script is acting strangely.
It selects and sync's over the "newest" podcasts to the destination directory. Then it suddenly DELETES all the episodes in the destination directory and copies over the three last files.
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Dec 26, 2010
I have some developers with Desktop User accounts. How can I allow them to delete files owned by www-data which are created under their accounts (/home/username/public_html) by PHP scripts they are coding and testing.I tried to edit www-data user group and add the user as a member of it but this has no effect - the user still unable to delete these files only by creating another PHP script!
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Nov 15, 2009
Slackware 12.2 has the unkind habit of deleting all the /dev/fd?u* floppy special files upon boot-up. I have to make another directory (I use /floppy) to contain these files so I don't have to keep copying them from an earlier distribution (12.1) Now, for example, to format a 1743 kilobyte floppy, I do fdformat /floppy/fd0u1743 mformat a:If I copy these special files to /dev (where they belong) then some part of Slackware Linux 12.2 deletes the special files when I power down and power up the machine.Slackware 12.1 and earlier leave floppy special files severely alone upon shutdown/startup.I cannot seem to "grep" a reference to /dev/fd anywhere in /etc/rc.d or its subdirectories. Why is Slackware 12.2 deleting them?
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Jan 14, 2010
the script should take as input in the begginig the username of the user and then deletes all the files and folders from the user in every place he has them. script must also check if the parameters have been given correctly (only one and that one must be a username) Doesnt all the files of a user exist on a folder with his name? what if i delete this folder? Will something like this work?
Quote:
E_NOARGS=65
if [ -z "$1" ] # Exit if no argument given.
then
echo "Usage: `basename $0` directory-to-copy-to"
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Feb 10, 2010
I get the following each time using "terminal":
tourdog@PJK3:~$ gksu nautilus Initializing nautilus-gdu extension
** (nautilus:2347): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal 'UploadFinished'
** (nautilus:2347): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal 'DownloadFinished'
** (nautilus:2347): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal 'ShareCreateError'
The "root - File Browser" comes up and it all seems to work but "what's up with the 3 warnings"?
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Jun 15, 2009
Have you guys had this weird nautilus error? When I su to root and run "nautilus" in terminal, errors popped out:
Code: (nautilus:3979): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session manager: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported(nautilus:3979): Eel-WARNING **: GConf error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)
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Sep 23, 2010
When i try installing anything i get errors, for example when i try to install somthing from ubuntu software center i get this.
Code: installArchives() failed: Preconfiguring packages ... Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package ttf-symbol-replacement. (Reading database ... dpkg: warning: files list file for package `libsdl-image1.2' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
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Jun 20, 2010
I really hate this warning when I try to open certain types of files in gedit: (using ubuntu lucid)
Quote:
Do you want to run File.c or display its contents?
"File.c" is an executable text file.
Open in Terminal; Display; Cancel; Run
Is there any way to remove the warning? I have never once clicked anything other than display, and when I'm opening lots of files, having to hold down ALT-D to get rid of these warnings.
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Oct 17, 2010
In order to upgrade a machine that can not successfully upgrade to 10.4 I downloaded and burned the 10.04.1 iso image off the ubuntu alternate download site. In my first attempt I unsuccessfully burned the image with it failing at the very end. I did perform an md5sum on it and received the precise output I got from my second burn attenpt which DID complete successfully. Here is the output:
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I did research this last night and it seems the common wisdom was to reburn the iso (which I did twice) or copy down the iso again. This I also did and it came down precisely, bit for bit, the same as the first one. Here are the two cksums
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Is there something wrong with this image on the website or is the error about 1 file being unreadable (could that also mean missing?) be erroneous?
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Jun 2, 2010
Since a couple of days back mostly all the folders and files I had on my download directory are not visible in Nautilus. Some of them are still there, but the majority it's like vanished. The folder is where everything I download with Transmission goes into. The tricky thing is that all those files are visible through the terminal, pcman file manager or konqueror, but not Nautilus, which is very annoying. I've tried reinstalling Nautilus from Synaptic, checking the 'show hidden files' option, checking and changing files and folder permissions and I also checked that there's no hidden instance of Nautilus running. I have Ubuntu 10.04 (upgraded from a 9.10) and the files are on a ext4 drive. Nautilus version is 2.30.1
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Jul 6, 2010
i just tried to install Ubuntu Netbook 10.04 on my old Amilo Lifebook P Series. But after the boot screen and the choice to install Ubuntu i get stuck at the Ubuntu screen with the little dots on the bottom If I hit esc i can see the warning (process 257): GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_(r) failed due to unknown user id (0)
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Mar 12, 2010
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Mar 22, 2010
I use XBMC a lot and recenty i have been trying to download movies i have d/l using SABNZBDPLUS. I noticed my 320GB getting low so i tried deleting the files within the folder itself but got this message "Cannot move file to the deeted items folder, do you want to delete permanently?". Anyway i tried to delete but i guess it would not also the main folder had a lock icon on it.
So i read somewhere you can use nautilus in the terminal and once i navigated to the folder in question i pressed the delete key on my keyboard. The file is not in my trash can and i dont think is permenantly deleted as my disc space has not been reduced.
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May 5, 2010
where's the nautilus app that i want to use to link to the "open containing folder" option within the download menu. For some reason it's as if it's completely forgotten it. After searching for nautilus, i didn't see one single file that looked like it was the main part of nautilus to link to, there was a myriad of files to choose from and i thought it'd be better to ask here and quicker than to try each one out myself.
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Oct 25, 2010
often times when I browse for files from a site nautilus will open up and i can't see a picture preview of the files.this makes choosing photos to upload nearly impossible.
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Nov 29, 2010
Nautlius doesn't show all the files that are in a folder From the screenshots below you can see that there are more files in the folder (ls from the terminal shows them all), however nautilus doesn't. Other .mkv files show up in other folders so its not that
I've tired turning off previews and that didn't work. Running nautilus as root didn't work either
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Dec 1, 2010
Whenever I try to install or remove a program, I get the following error
Code:
dpkg: warning: files list file for package `libavahi-common-data' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
dpkg: warning: files list file for package `libgtk2.0-common' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
dpkg: warning: files list file for package `libxres1' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed. (Reading database ... 55%dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: files list file for package 'ubuntu-mono' is missing final newline E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
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Aug 4, 2010
I'm running Gnome in Ubuntu 10.04. Nautilus used to work fine on my system but now it's doing something strange. Whenever I drag a file out of the Nautilus window to move it somewhere else, as soon as the mouse cursor goes out of the window Nautilus closes and the file I was dragging also disappears.
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Aug 27, 2010
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Sep 7, 2010
I haven't been able to find anything on the 'net about this: when running "rkhunter --enable all", I get this warning:
Code:
However, when I navigate to the gvfs-metadata folder, the home file is there, 124.8Kb in size, of unknown type and gedit can't open it. The file in /tmp/, on the other hand, doesn't exist.
Why is Terminal using a deleted file, and why is the home file being reported as deleted when it isn't?
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Dec 12, 2010
just my setup that causes this? (Ubuntu 10.04, Nautilus 2.30.1) MS file icons in Nautilus have a specific icon (e.g. a big X on green background for XLS), but OOo files have blanks.
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Jan 23, 2011
New subversion user here. I've run into a nasty problem. It seems that nautilus chokes any time it tries to display a directory containing .svn files. There seems to be some sort of timeout involved per object under version control. The larger the directory, the longer it takes to display. I'm talking minutes here for a fairly ordinary sized directory.
Now I know that nautilus is painfully slow even at the best of times, but this is just ridiculous. These delays are crippling. I have no problem with nautilus and svn files on my work machine, which has centos. So it looks to me like something is misconfigured somewhere. And it is something specific to .svn files.
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Jan 26, 2011
I use nautilus and its awful. The only good thing are the tabs and the bookmarks on the cons:
* it freezes now and then when moving lots of files.
* Slow to navigate while large amounts of data are moving or displaying.
* Slow presenting of files where there are a lot of them (it should only render whatever is in screen and maybe render a properly sized navigation bar. Anything else shouldnt freeze the client. Render at its once pace if at all. I dont move the scroll bar it shouldnt freeze
* It doesnt queue (meaning it moves everything at the same time instead of queueing stuff, what makes moving stuff take longer) .
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Apr 16, 2011
I would like to have Nautilus not display the *.pyc files, is there a way to obtain this result?
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Aug 22, 2011
I'm just having a small issue with Firefox 6 (Ubuntu 11.04, 32 bit).Whenever I save a file and try to open it by double clicking in theDownloads Windows, Firefox attempts to open it with Nautilus.I can't understand why, but now every time I'm forced to openthe containing folder and launch the file manually.It's not a big issue but I'd like to solve it
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Jul 29, 2010
I applied some changed to the MOTD in /etc/update-motd (including removing the canonical mention in ./python2.6/dist-packages/landscape/sysinfo/landscapelink.py). After updating the system I found that all my changes had been deleted without any warning. Is there a way around this nonsense?
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Aug 26, 2010
I booted into Windows 7 three times this summer and each time I did, upon restart grub was missing. In fact, the computer couldn't find any operating system, and displayed an error "No Module Name Found".
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I have a Dell Studio 1557.
:~$ uname -a
Linux dell-monsters 2.6.32-24-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 19 01:38:40 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
:~$ sudo fdisk -l
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May 25, 2010
I mean, when you search through the bar in Nautilus, how do you make it search for hidden files too?
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Jun 3, 2010
With Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.0.4 I have seen that the nautilus filemanager is extremely slow with folders that contains many files or/and folders.I made sure that "Assistive Technologies" is diable. On the filemanager preference I set all preview to "Never", tried all possible views, but the filemanager remains extremely slow. It seems like it becomes even slower when the subfolders in the folder you are viewing new files are being created by for example a program. Possibly nautilus filemanager is updating continuously ?
I use to be using debian etch nautilus file manager. With the same directories, nautilus in debain etch was working much faster. But contrary to the one in Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.0.4 is is far less stable. It seems like the newer version is more stable but however extremely much slower. I was wondering if I am missing something. Or whether this is a bug. If it is a bug, then I am wondering when this is going to be solved in nautlius filemanager.
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