Public bug reported:
Hours after downloading a few pdf files with Chrome into the Desktop and being
done with them, I went to delete them.
I was surprised to find a file called something.pdf.chdownload. These are the
temporary files that Chrome creates while downloading the files, then it
renames them to their final filename without the .chrdownload suffix when they
are complete. All of the files had been downloaded completely and succesfully
(I had actually opened all of them) so this file shouldn't exist.
And indeed, when I went to download it, I got an error "Cannot move <filename>
to trash. Delete it permanently?" (this is actually stupid in the first place:
the reason why I'm getting this error, it turns out, is that the file does not
exist, so it makes no sense to give me the option to permanently delete it,
which will fail for the exact same reason).
So I chose "delete", and got an error again, that the file could not be
deleted. I retried several times and finally looked at "details" and found out
that the source of the error was "no such file or directory".
So, the file was not there.
So why the fuck was it being shown on the desktop if it was no longer
there? I can assume it might happen some rare times (it's a bug anyway)
that you for some reason "miss" when a file ceases existing, and hence
it is still falsely visible on the desktop. But there should come a
point where Nautilus "realises" the file no longer exists and stops
showing it. In other words, the contents of the desktop should be
"refreshed" from time to time or on certain events. And trying to delete
a file, triggering an error that says that the file doesn't fucking
exist, should be such a case where you refresh the information and stop
showing a file that doesn't exist.
It's pathetic that you keep showing it forever until I kill and restart
nautilus or fucking reboot.
I'm sick of reporting such idiotic bugs on Nautilus. Ubuntu, for fuck's sake,
switch to some better, decently maintained file manager. Nautilus is CRAP.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.18.4.is.3.14.3-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-119.143-generic 4.4.114
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-119-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.16
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Apr 22 18:04:34 2018
GsettingsChanges:
b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'sidebar-width' b'190'
b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'1369x817+258+98'"
b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'use-tree-view' b'true'
b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size',
'type', 'date_modified', 'date_accessed', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions',
'mime_type', 'where']"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-11 (1653 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug third-party-packages xenial
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