Bug 302238

Summary:	'Files' Media source needs an explicit 'Refresh' button
Product:	[Applications] amarok	Reporter:	Syam <get.sonic>
Component:	File Browser	Assignee:	Amarok Developers <amarok-bugs-dist>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	matej
Priority:	NOR
Version:	2.5.0
Target Milestone:	2.6
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Syam 2012-06-20 14:51:44 UTC

When browsing a local file system using 'Files' in 'Media Sources', the contents of directories are sometimes not always automatically refreshed.

I observed this twice when I extracted a zip archive containing MP3 files. The extraction created a new subdirectory containing the mp3 files. Amarok file browser was already displaying the top directory and the newly created subdirectory was not automatically displayed. Navigating away to a different folder and coming back to the directory did not help. I even switched to 'Local music' and then back to 'Files', but without any effect. The only way was to close Amarok and start it again.

I don't know if something else needs to be fixed for automatically refreshing the file browser. Anyway, having a manual 'refresh' button (perhaps next to the back/forward/up/home navigation buttons) would definitely help with such situations.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-06-21 09:10:26 UTC

Is this when browsing local files or on a NFS mount? In the latter case this is a duplicate of bug 275825. 
In any case, both might have the same reason.

Comment 2 Syam 2012-06-21 13:02:52 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
This is a local file system. And I think you linked the wrong bug report. Bug #275825 is about a translation and not about file browser.

Comment 3 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-06-22 17:51:03 UTC

Indeed, that was a typo, I meant bug 275925

Comment 4 Syam 2012-07-11 06:08:17 UTC

I have a feeling that this is actually a problem in a lower layer component. Sometimes the new directory is not automatically displayed by Dolphin. I have to an explicit 'refresh'.
Anyway, having an explicit refresh button in Amarok will certainly help in such cases.

Comment 5 Matěj Laitl 2012-12-15 10:01:27 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 213666 ***