GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 623885
endless loading in nautilus / some files missing
Last modified: 2021-06-18 15:13:17 UTC
From downstream Ubuntu ( Bug present in Fedora, moving this upstream ) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/383927 The following is text from the original reporter "a-blender-guy" bug discription: it often happens after moving some files or folders into another (target-)folder. when the fileoperation is complete sometimes the target-folder does not refresh, so I hit CTRL+R for a refresh. but then nautilus does not get ready with loading this target-folder and does not display every file in the folder. [the loading animation spins around and around and around ...] Even if I close nautilus and open the folder again it's the same: endless loading an some files are missing. no filesystem bug: other filebrowsers work well (i've tested e.g. with konqueror and it shows everything that's in the folder and everything is quite normal) also in xterm "ls" shows all files and they are normally accessable my silly solution: I use e.g. konqueror: I create an empty folder in the for-nautilus-problematic-folder and move the problematic-files (that are not displayed in nautilus) into it. AND then in nautilus everything(!) works fine: no endless loading end the files (that were missing before) are displayed in the "new folder". info: -I think it does not matter what filetype the missing files are. (last time it was a single .pdf file, but it's different every other time) -the folder is on a ntfs partition mounted in my home folder (by UUID through /etc/fstab) I believe it's a new bug since 9.04 but I don't know. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: nautilus 1:2.26.2-0ubuntu2 ProcEnviron: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: nautilus Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
From "Jeff Dag" on How to reproduce: I don't this this is a dup of #454297, here's how I can repeatedly reproduce it: open a nautilus window in "list view", create a folder (don't even bother changing it's name), enter the directory and create a other folder, but name it starting with a dot ("." so hidden folder). Go back up to the parent of "untitled folder" you created and hit the little triangle to view it's content, it says "loading..." endlessly. For the record, i have the left pane displaying "Places". And this scenario is just so you can create it with dummy folders, but I observed this behaviour because of a svn checkout I have on my HD... one of our dirs is empty, but on my HD it contains a dir called ".svn" as do all the checked out dirs, but since this one doesn't have any elements other than this ".svn" it made the "Loading..." problem. Enjoy! (and please fix ;) )
Hi, thanks for your bug report. After reading the launchpad page, I think the reporters are describing two different bugs: - Till comment #26 there's no mention of hidden files, and the bug is related to thumbnailing not being finished/updated properly or otherwise blocking the view (icon and list AFAICS). - Jeff Dag's comment (#27 on launchpad, #1 here) instead refers to the _list_ view being stuck into "Loading ..." state when the expanded folder only contains hidden files. The second bug is already reported on GNOME bugzilla as #487755.
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org. As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately quite limited so not every ticket can get handled). If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent and supported software version of Files (nautilus), then please follow https://wiki.gnome.org/GettingInTouch/BugReportingGuidelines and create a new ticket at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/ Thank you for your understanding and your help.