Re: Odd behaviour?

On 05/12/2024 11:19, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2024-12-05 12:06, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 05/12/2024 10:34, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2024-12-05 08:59, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 04/12/2024 18:41, Rich wrote:

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 03/12/2024 22:24, Andy Burns wrote:

The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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What I find puzzling is how it appears in the GUI but isn't on the
actual machine file system

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funky characters in filename?
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ls -la | cat -v

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Nope. Still no sign
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I think some part of the GUI environment builds a cache, and its in
that, but not in the real world so to speak

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What is the GUI file browser program you use under Mate?
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Caja
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Many "GUI file browsers" have a tendancy to "combine" plural actual
disk paths into the 'appearance' of a singular view (and "Desktop" is
one of those 'views' that GUI dev's think need this miss-feature).
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So it is possible the file it is located somewhere other than
~/Desktop/ and the GUI is merging together that other location with the
contents of the actual ~/Desktop/, and presenting the combination to
you as "Desktop".
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Hmm. Still doesn't say why it cant be deleted/found Even from the GUI file manager

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Because it would be on another directory.
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But if the GUI knows where it is the GUI should be able to delete it.

 The GUI is not a magician.

No, but it must have consistent rules. If Caja displays it Caja can delete it and the same for the desktop manager as well
The fact is it is - or was - a ghost. It only existed as far as I can tell in the GUI cache...
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