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Bug 647204 - nautilus file:///foo/blah.txt should work
nautilus file:///foo/blah.txt should work
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 632427
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: general
0.x.x [obsolete]
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-04-08 18:45 UTC by Federico Mena Quintero
Modified: 2011-04-08 19:51 UTC
See Also:
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Description Federico Mena Quintero 2011-04-08 18:45:02 UTC 
Currently, you can ask Nautilus to open a folder window by running

  nautilus file:///home/federico/Downloads

or even the non-URI version, /home/federico/Downloads.

However, if you run

  nautilus file:///home/federico/Downloads/somefile.txt

You get an error message, 'Could not display <filename>.  The location is not a folder."

Being able to make Nautilus go directly to a folder and highlight a particular file would be very useful for programs that provide "upward circulation" for your files [1].  Both Firefox and Evince have an "Open containing folder" command, but unfortunately it only makes Nautilus show the folder that contains the file you are visiting, instead of also highlighting the file.

I guess the current startup-notification machinery would already take care of providing the correct timestamps for showing the new window, and all that.

[1] http://people.gnome.org/~federico/news-2010-06.html#09
Comment 1 Cosimo Cecchi 2011-04-08 19:51:23 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 632427 ***