Bug 352975

Summary:	dolphin from git master pollutes /tmp/ with dolphin.***** files
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Hussam Al-Tayeb <ht990332>
Component:	panels: places	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	aaugusto, faure
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	16.12.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Hussam Al-Tayeb 2015-09-21 10:38:03 UTC

Every time I click on an entry under 'Recently Saved' for example, Today, Yesterday, This Month, Last Month, dolphin creates a few /tmp/dolphin.something files and doesn't delete them when I close dolphin on click on another entry.
I noticed this when I found over 500 files in /tmp/
As a workaround, I set a cronjob that deletes the older ones every hour.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Andres Nogueiras 2015-10-07 18:05:30 UTC

I can confirm a similar behavior when browsing the Trash:/ folder and the preview is active. In this case the Dolphin starts to create, inside of /tmp/kde-user dir, a lot of dolphinXXXX.tmp with copies of the files in the trash, and do not delete them.

In my laptop, where I generate many files and delete them from dolphin, my trash folder is allowed to store up to 10 GB. And my /tmp partition is 4 GB. So in a few seconds, the kde session starts to fail, and many applications start not to be responding. I need to store in trash just in case some of them are incorrectly deleted.

I believe that is something related to thumb preview generation.  And as far as I believe this a very useful feature, resources granted to this process (cpu cycles / thread / processes / tmp space) must be somehow tuned in order not to overload the machine.

Comment 2 David Faure 2017-03-06 09:00:33 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 208625 ***