GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 155091
Opening a deleted 'recent document' results in a new file.
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
This bug has been reported here: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/2224 "Selecting a file to open from the Computer->Recent Documents list results in a new file of the same type if the file no longer exists. Perhaps a better default behavior is to tell the user the file doesn't exist or has been moved and to give the user the option to create a new file of the same type."
This is a problem in recent-files: if the file doesn't exist any more, it should not appear in the list. IIRC, this was implemented before, but removed because it used FAM (and blocked lot of stuff)...
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 143385 ***