Bug 653064 – Prune ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel of missing/old files

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Bug 653064 - Prune ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel of missing/old files


Summary:	Prune ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel of missing/old files


Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE

Product:	gnome-settings-daemon
Classification:	Core
Component:	housekeeping
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal enhancement
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	gnome-settings-daemon-maint
QA Contact:	gnome-settings-daemon-maint

URL:
Whiteboard:	3.10

Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2011-06-21 01:35 UTC by John Stowers
Modified:	2019-03-20 10:54 UTC

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Description John Stowers 2011-06-21 01:35:02 UTC

My recently-used.xbel grows to a large size (which is not a problem in itself) and after some time contains many files that no longer exist. 

The large size makes gnome-shell slow, and the non-existent files make the gnome-shell recently used search less useful.

g-s-d could parse recently-used.xbel and remove missing files (on local mounted filesystems).

There is precedent for this in the thumbnail cache cleaning, and it was suggested in the initial GtkRecent implementation http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/2008/03/23/time-to-build/

Comment 1 Stefan Sauer (gstreamer, gtkdoc dev) 2011-07-01 01:30:41 UTC

duplicate of bug 600491?

Comment 2 John Stowers 2011-07-01 02:01:34 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> duplicate of bug 600491?

Wow. Looks like it. My shell memory usage dropped by 100MB after cleaning.

Comment 3 John Stowers 2011-07-01 02:09:48 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > duplicate of bug 600491?
> 
> Wow. Looks like it. My shell memory usage dropped by 100MB after cleaning.

Oops. Maybe not a dupe, but certainly related

Comment 4 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2019-03-20 10:54:56 UTC

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