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Iconizing the "Emptying Trash" Window makes it disappear

Bug #575087 reported by Arne Caspari

This bug report was converted into a question: question #109592: Iconizing the "Emptying Trash" Window makes it disappear.

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Bug Description

Binary package hint: nautilus

I just emptied a Trash with a large number of files and iconized the "preparing to empty the trash" ( or similar ) dialog. The window completely vanishes and there is no tab in the window list for it to bring it back.

The gvfsd-trash process does continue to run causing high CPU and IO load ( probably still collecting data about the to-be-removed items to display a process bar on a hidden window ;-) )

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote :

Do you have an indicator-applet on your panel?

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Arne Caspari (arne-datafloater) wrote :

Hmm, I do not know what you mean.

If you mean if there was a tray icon indicating that there is a file operation in progress, then no, there wasn't any.

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote :

There is an icon by default - it sounds like you don't have the indicator applet on your panel. I'll convert this in to a support request in the answer tracker, which is the more appropriate place for you to get help adding it back again

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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Arne Caspari (arne-datafloater) wrote :

Changing to invalid was a bit fast, I guess.

There is an indicator for file operations if I copy eg. a large directory or similar. However this indicator did not appear when emptying the trash.

Maybe the indicator does not appear while the "empty trash"-operation is counting files? ( This operation takes a ridiculous amount of time if the trash contains many files - I killed gvsd-trash after hours and it did not seem to even start to delete the first file, so there should be at least an indicator during this operation, i guess ).

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → Incomplete
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Arne Caspari (arne-datafloater) wrote :

Ok I tested it again with a large folder and now there is an indicator in the tray bar. I am absolutely sure that there was no indicator when I posted the bug report.

Maybe the gvsd-trash process has gone wild during the last operation, however I can currently not repoduce it.

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote :

Could you please detail the steps you are taking to empty the trash? Are you using the panel applet to do that? (in which case, that's unrelated to nautilus anyway)

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Arne Caspari (arne-datafloater) wrote :

Ok, this is getting closer:

I have probably clicked the "empty trash" menu item of the panel-applet the first time. This will not bring up the indicator icon in the tray bar. However when I do this now, the window is still in the window list of the panel but when I issued the bug report, I was not able to bring up the window in any way ( it was not in the windows list and it did not appear in the window switcher when I pressed ctrl+alt+tab which should bring up windows from all desktops IIRC ).

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for nautilus (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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