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Bug 513881 - .nautilus directory has hundreds of saved-session-XXXXX files
.nautilus directory has hundreds of saved-session-XXXXX files
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: general
0.x.x [obsolete]
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
nautilus[EMC08]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-02-02 13:09 UTC by Diego González
Modified: 2009-02-21 13:29 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Diego González 2008-02-02 13:09:50 UTC 
hi, i was trying to look where the new trash is (GIO) and found this directory contains several hundred small files, the first one written in 2006 up to today.

Nautilus shoud not leave this useless files behind it.
Comment 1 Germán Poo-Caamaño 2008-11-07 02:57:17 UTC 
Confirming the bug.  Easy to reproduce :-)
Comment 2 Emmanuel Fleury 2008-11-10 14:25:43 UTC 
I did not notice this problem on my system (Nautilus 2.20.0). My trash is located at: /home/fleury/.local/share

And its content is:

Trash/
|-- files
|   `-- Erasmus_Mundus_Proposal-2x1.pdf
`-- info
    |-- Erasmus_Mundus_Proposal-2x1.pdf.trashinfo
    |-- link.trashinfo
    |-- linux-2.6.26.5.tar.bz2.trashinfo
    `-- ribeiro00multiscale.pdf.trashinfo

2 directories, 5 files


I guess the files *.trashinfo are removed from time to time but I do not know when (I guess when you log out). Is it still a bug ???
Comment 3 Paul Wise 2008-11-10 14:36:23 UTC 
The issue is with ~/.nautilus/ not the Trash. I think you got confused by the first message.
Comment 4 Emmanuel Fleury 2008-11-10 14:40:28 UTC 
Got it. I do confirm the problem. :)

$ ls ~/.nautilus/
metafiles/             saved-session-B49J4T  saved-session-L7LK4T
saved-session-4LQ23T  saved-session-F7OA4T  saved-session-MMM93T
saved-session-4QW14T  saved-session-GBU53T  saved-session-SZ56IU
saved-session-76KM4T  saved-session-GF9R4T  saved-session-TG704T
Comment 5 Dan Winship 2008-11-14 15:00:54 UTC 
the bug in nautilus 2.24 and below is that it's not calling gnome_client_set_discard_command() in nautilus-application.c:save_session(). It's already fixed in trunk (where it uses EggSMClient instead).
Comment 6 Emmanuel Fleury 2008-11-19 06:43:48 UTC 
So, it should be tagged as 'FIXED' or 'OBSOLETE', isn't it ?
Comment 7 Dan Winship 2008-11-19 14:58:40 UTC 
someone may still want to fix it for 2.24.2 next week
Comment 8 Cosimo Cecchi 2009-02-21 13:29:25 UTC 
We won't have any other 2.24 releases -> FIXED.