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Bug 744989 - gnome-sound-recorder creates 'Recordings' folder on startup
gnome-sound-recorder creates 'Recordings' folder on startup
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-sound-recorder
Classification: Other
Component: General
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-sound-recorder maintainer(s)
gnome-sound-recorder maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-02-23 00:43 UTC by Allison Karlitskaya (desrt)
Modified: 2015-05-19 02:04 UTC
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Description Allison Karlitskaya (desrt) 2015-02-23 00:43:07 UTC 
I don't often use gnome-sound-recorder, but I have it installed.

Sometime I start it by accident when trying to open the "Sound" panel in the settings via gnome-shell search.

When this happens, gnome-sound-recorder will immediately create a 'Recordings' folder in my home directory, even if I don't actually make a recording.

It would be nice if the creation of this folder were delayed until a recording was actually started.
Comment 1 Allison Karlitskaya (desrt) 2015-02-23 00:45:28 UTC 
A closely-related bug:

 1) start gnome-sound-recorder
 2) remove the 'Recordings' folder
 3) click "Record"

You will be presented with a dialog with the following error:

    Unable to set the pipeline 
    to the recording state

    OK

and nothing else will happen.
Comment 2 Meg Ford 2015-02-23 03:15:39 UTC 
Thanks, I'll take a look.
Comment 3 Meg Ford 2015-05-19 02:04:55 UTC 
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-sound-recorder/commit/?id=c0b5edd249050ee3d3be169431f2c16604144a1d

I decided to continue to create the directory on startup, but also re-create the directory if it's not present at the time of file creation. Thanks for the report :)