Re: Files and directories showing in CLI but not in GUI
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:43:43PM +0000, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> I had some problems with one of my drives last week (see "System no
> longer boots" and "How to remove a PV from an LVM VG?"
>
> Now my problem is different, and stranger.
>
> I thought that I was going to need to get filesystem recovery software
> to retrieve at least some of my data. Meanwhile, I obtained a spare
> 80 GB HD and a live DVD ROM which contained Debian Squeeze. I could
> boot to the live system and I did an install onto the 80 GB drive. I
> rebooted into the new system and it seemed OK. I installed R-Linux to
> try and recover my files, but it did not see my old drive (from which
> I had done the pvmove). It was getting late and I did not want to
> leave the system up untill I knew that everything was working
> reasonably. So I powered down.
>
> The next day I was unable to boot into the new system without being
> dropped into a maintenance shell. Aaaargh! So I booted into the live
> system, again. I looked for my missing files and directories again.
> Why would I expect to see them? I don't know. Desperation, perhaps.
> The file browser did not show them. Then I tried something different.
> I opened a terminal, did a 'cd' to my old home directory which I had
> mounted at /mnt and did an 'ls'. Lo! And Behold! The missing
> directories were there. I did a 'cd' into my main documents
> directory, followed by 'ls' and my files were all there. They show up
> from the command line, but not from the GUI!
>
> Now I really started to wonder. I opened OpenOfficeCalc aqnd tried to
> browse to the directory and file that I had just seen. Nothing. The
> directory did not show up. Then I clicked on the icon to 'Type a File
> Name' and entered the name of the missing directory, followed my a
> slash. All the files showed up! I selected one of the large .ods
> files that I use a lot. A message came up, saying:
>
> Document file 'xxxxx.xxx' is locked for editing by:
> xxx ( 06.05.2012 15:49)
> Open the document read-only or open a copy of the document for editing.
>
> The x's above were the file name that I was trying to open and my
> login on the old system. If I select Open Read-Only the file opens
> right up. Other files open without the warning. I probably had that
> particular file open when the system went wonky (it is almost always
> open) and that is the reason for the warning dialog.
>
> So my question is: Why do some of my files and directories show in GUI
> apps, but not all of them, while all of them seem to show up just fine
> from the command line?
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on this? If all of my files are actually
> on the disk, in good order, why can I only see them from the command
> line? Is there something that I can do to make all of the files and
> directories visible in GUI apps, as well? This would make my life a
> whole lot easier.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
??
Gnome/KDE/xfce4/wmii/ratpoison...
Nautilus/Dolphin/Thunar/pcmanfm...
??
--
❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤
Indulekha
Reply to: