Hi Charles, > > Do you mean you insert one USB device, e.g. a flash memory stick, > > and lots of icons appear. Or that old ones never disappear so each > > time you insert the stick you gain one more? Are you doing an > > "eject" or "safely remove drive" for the USB device before removing > > it? > > I 'safely eject' USB devices each time. > > When a USB device is inserted, a row of USB icons replicates itself > automatically along the top menu bar going from the original icon to > the right, and stops short of covering the Shut-Down circle. I have > since discovered that I can right-click on each one and get rid of > them one at a time, but it doesn't stop it occurring again on the next > USB insertion.
Wonder if it's a more extreme version of this bug. https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/765261 The person that initially reported it says it doesn't happen for him in 11.10. > > > and frequent refusal to allow a cut folder from desktop to be > > > pasted into my Home folder. > > > > Can you give us the output of > > > > ls -ld ~ ~/Desktop > > cam@PAMPRU-D2:~$ ls -ld ~ ~/Desktop > drwxr-xr-x 69 cam cam 4096 2011-11-27 16:50 /home/cam > drwxr-xr-x 7 cam cam 4096 2011-11-24 15:41 /home/cam/Desktop > cam@PAMPRU-D2:~$ Nothing obviously wrong there. Next time you're trying to move folder/directory "foo" from somewhere in your Desktop to your home directory and the problem occurs then you could try moving it from the command line. mv ~/Desktop/.../foo ~ mv(1) can move whole directory hierarchies within the same filesystem, and it's quick too since it's just unlinking foo from its old parent and linking it into the new so very little on disk changes. ~ on its own is taken by the shell as your home directory and expanded to /home/cam before mv sees it. Likewise, ~/Desktop becomes /home/cam/Desktop. Just saves some typing. If it doesn't work then either then the error message may give us more clues. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-12-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
