GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 47742
Change behaviour when refreshing in non-existent directory
Last modified: 2008-11-10 20:52:01 UTC
1- make a temporary directory 2- enter that directory with nautilus 3- remove the directory with rmdir or rm -rf from a terminal(removing with nautilus wont produce the bug 40004- in the nautilus window, hit refresh. 5- wonder where nautilus went maybe nautilus doesnt check if the directory exists before refreshing? i can't tell, because there is nothing to stdout am using 1.0 rpms for rh62 keep up the good work! ------- Additional Comments From darin@bentspoon.com 2001-03-15 10:46:53 ---- We do this kind of "on purpose". It should be improved. ------- Additional Comments From sullivan@eazel.com 2001-03-15 10:59:10 ---- It is supposed to put up a dialog telling you that the directory can't be found, also. Currently it puts up a dialog telling you something vague. Or did it not even do that? ------- Additional Comments From mdoller@wpi.edu 2001-03-15 20:15:17 ---- nope, no dialog is this feature in cvs? as i said, im running the rpms, but if i have free time, i will try out compiling from cvs ------- Additional Comments From sullivan@eazel.com 2001-03-16 15:49:00 ---- I tried this, and I saw the dialog flash onto the screen for an instant before vanishing. So there's a bug causing the error dialog to vanish when the window vanishes (and thus it lives a very short life). It's also the case that the text in the error dialog isn't very good, but that doesn't matter much when you can't even see it. : ) I will check in better text soon. I also plan to investigate why the dialog vanishes, but I can't guarantee when I'll get to that. ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 21:31 -------
Bug still there.
Bug still there in HEAD. Changing version to HEAD.
In 2.0.7 the error dialog is displayed. Rather than closing the nautilus window, better behaviour would be: 1. going back in the history until a valid location is found. 2. moving down the path one level 3. moving to $HOME
*** Bug 101126 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
There's no dialog in 2.8.x so this has been broken again I think. There are more duplicates of this in bugzilla too I guess.
Seems to have reached a proper behaviour in 2.25.1. What does Nautilus now is that when the directory is removed, the nautilus windows disapear. At least, no bad behaviour is possible. Should we consider this bug as fixed ???
Right now we don't make the window vanish, but we move up one level, which I think it's acceptable (and it's what was suggested here in comment #3). So, closing as OBSOLETE.