On Sat, 23 May 2009 15:30:12 -0700 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo:
> So today I am downloading some distros for my USB disk that I take to > the Clinic. Suddenly Transmission announces that I am out of file > space. Sure enough, the GUI says there is no free space out of the 140 > GB formatted. Now, I know I have a lot of stuff on this computer, but > just the other day I know I had around 30 GB free. > > Further poking around revealed 35 GB in "Trash." I deleted them and > that gave me 35 GB free. > > More poking around revealed a link (arrow on the icon) to /media/cdrom. > Inside was another 12.1 GB of files - what appeared to be tar.gz backup > files from 2007. I deleted them, and then Nautilus announced that I had > 47 GB free space. Don't ask why backup files were in there, because I > have no clue. I have never [deliberately] created backups to the same > partition as I am backing up, nor have I ever used optical media as a > backup destination. > > Just now I wanted to look at some items in ~/Phonology/. The folder is > still there, but all my bookmarks are gone - about 20 of them. They > were all there this morning. Evidently deleting stuff from Trash > deletes your bookmarks. > > OK, I'll just recreate the bookmarks. It's just a click - click - click > process. Except that you can't do it easily. I selected a file in > ~/Phonology/ and told Nautilus to create a bookmark to it. Nautilus > created a bookmark to ~/. The only way to get a bookmark to the > ~/Phonology/ folder is to create one to ~/ and then edit it manually. > > I have had problems with Nautilus in the distant past, but this crap is > new. I wonder if the dist-upgrade to Jaunty is responsible. An update, in case this ever happens to anyone else. You can kill and restart Nautilus with "sudo killall nautilus." However, Nautilus is running only when you have a browser window open. And killing and restarting it did not restore my bookmarks. I finally found out where bookmarks are stored. It is a plain text file ~/.gtk-bookmarks. I had looked all over for hidden files with "nautilus" or "gnome" in them without luck. I restored the file from a backup of a couple weeks ago and all my bookmarks are back. The unanswered question is why emptying the Trash folder would delete the contents of ~/.gtk-bookmarks. OK, deleting the Trash probably deleted the whole file, which was then regenerated anew the next time I opened Nautilus. But why would deleting the Trash delete a hidden file in ~/? Gnome is a mysterious place. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
