Howdy, I use Dolphin a lot. I like it and all but recently, it started doing something that annoys me. When I'm doing something, I tend to open a instance of Dolphin for whatever it is I'm doing. I also leave instances open and ready for when I do routine things. Some things I do so often, I leave them open all the time. Usually that is four instances. If needed, for example when I'm getting videos off trail cameras, I open another instance until I'm done with that task. So, I use Dolphin for different things on different desktops with tabs in different places. It just makes things easier, faster and works best for me.
What I don't like is this, when I open a new instance, it tries to copy the last instance I used that is still open. When I open a new instance, I want it to open where I want but not be affected by other instances that are running. Just as a example. Yesterday I was trying to copy videos from my trail cameras to a USB stick while also copying and organizing them on my hard drive. When I put in a USB stick or the card from the camera, I click the notification thing and tell it to open the USB stick or the card. Thing is, it tries to copy the instance, usually the one I use to watch TV from, which has a lot of open tabs. I have to close all the tabs I don't want to get things like it should be to begin with. I also have KDE set to save my session. When I first login with four saved instances, it creates a mess. Sometimes, it just jumbles them up. Sometimes it sort of works. It never works like it used to tho. Also, sometimes the Folder panel on the left doesn't work either. It's either blank or only has /bin and nothing else. Nothing I do gets it to work right so I have to start a new instance and close the broken one. This is fairly new and very consistent. It started a couple updates ago and I was hoping it was a bug and would be fixed. I'm starting to think it is a new feature. I've looked in preferences and can't find any setting related to this behavior. Smplayer for example has a setting for either multiple or single instances. It works the way you set it. I can't find anything similar in Dolphin tho. Anyone have any info on this? Is this the new way Dolphin works? Is there a way to disable it somewhere? Do I need to look for another file manager that behaves like I want? Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
