Each night (at midnight) I make backups of files that changed the previous day, and on the first of the month I make full backups of important directories (/home, /etc, etc etc). Each morning I do maintenance on the partial backup from the day before. I've noticed that since I upgraded to the 3* series kernel (at this moment it's 3.2.12) I've had problems with file-roller - I tell it to delete a directory (something I consider nonessential like ~/.thumbnails) and I says "Reading archive..." without actually deleting anything. I've found that I can delete ten files at a time, which can be really inconvenient when there are hundreds of nonessential files I need to delete. I don't think it's tar - I can go into my terminal window and delete all the files I want with tar and it works perfectly; it just seems to be file-roller. Has anyone else experienced this?
