Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 07:54:25AM -0500 schrieb Dale: >> 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. > Dolphin settings, very first page, very first setting: set it to open a > fixed location at startup. Then it will not restore any previous internal > state. > > -- Grüße | Greetings | Salut | Qapla’ Abolish Christmas, Joseph > confessed everything!
I saw that setting. First place I looked. Thing is, since I didn't want it to always start at the same place, I thought that wouldn't work. I thought that no matter what I clicked, it would open at that place. Given you said that would work, I tried it. I set it to /, or root, but if I click on a folder on the desktop, sure enough, it starts and opens the folder I clicked on. Did that a few times just to be sure. LOL I also plugged in a USB stick, mounted it and then told the notification thingy to open in File Manager. Yep, it opened right where it should. I was looking for a instance setting or something since it kept copying other running instances and their tabs. I wouldn't have ever thought to try that setting. They might want to explain that setting a little bit. While I saw it, I certainly didn't expect it to behave this way. I expected it to open at that location no matter how Dolphin was started. I'll play with this a few days but so far, looks like a good solution. Thanks much. I can stop pulling my hair out now. Dale :-) :-) P. S. Planning to try that checksum script soon. It's a large number of files so it will take a long time to run. I think you mentioned that if stopped, it will resume where it left off. Oh, I did use rsync and checksum option on backups the other day. I couldn't check all the files tho. I just checked the ones recently accessed. It found four out of the few hundred I checked. I restored them after some testing.
