GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 601914
Nautilus forgets sorting of directories symlinked from other disks
Last modified: 2021-06-18 15:28:30 UTC
When you view a folder in Nautilus that is physically on another harddisk, but navigated to with a symlink, Nautilus won't save the sort preferences, you'll have to sort again each time you open the map. Example: directory 'music' is on harddisk /dev/sda2, but the home directory is on /dev/sda1. You create a symlink at /home/user/music which points to /media/data/sda2. When you sort that directory on date created Nautilus will forget that when you close the directory. This bug was originally reported in Ubuntu at its bugtracker Launchpad by Alex Vaystikh, the bug report can be found at https://launchpad.net/bugs/428386
I can confirm this, but can found a similar bug, I change the status to NEW if any can say this is DUP please change status, thank.
Users can confirm this happens both when the directory linked to is on a different hard disk and when the directory is on a different partition on the same hard disk.
Nautilus doesn't have a different sort setting per directory anymore, so that's not relevant anymore.
Actually the sort setting is still stored per directory
Ah, sorry I didn't notice and thought it was gone with other per directory settings such as zoom level.
(In reply to Alexandre Franke from comment #5) > Ah, sorry I didn't notice and thought it was gone with other per directory > settings such as zoom level. Agree, is kinda inconsistent. But it's useful for example for Downloads (by mtime), Recent (by mtime). Maybe we should just do it for those two. Allan, what do you think?
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