GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 460730
directory dimension not updated after a move
Last modified: 2021-06-18 15:13:41 UTC
The bug has been opened on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/125453 "Binary package hint: nautilus nautilus 2.19.4-0ubuntu2 you can set in preferences, visualization, to add the "dimension" shown under a file/directory this means filesize for files, and number of elements for a directoty. do this simple think from ma nautilus window: create two directories: source destination create some files in source, and cut them go to the parent directory: you can see that source has now the wanted dimension (e.g. 3 files) now paste, right clicking paste on the destination directory (not going into it), and you will see that the destination directory has the right dimension, but the source directory still has the previous dimension! the source dimension should be updated when moving files If you do the same thing from a shell using mv, and you keep open the parent folder, the result is the opposite: the source directory count is updated, while the destination count is not updated. After doing other tests with touch and rm, I see that the problem persists. Maybe inotify is not used well, when displaying the dimension?"
Confirming, this still happens with 2.21.
Do any of you know what's the problem? If it's not fixable, it should be workarounded by removing file count
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