Bug 425098

Summary:	Dolphin isn't Noticing Newly Created Files
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Lonnie <kde>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	bugseforuns, dolphin-bugs-null, elvis.angelaccio, equeim
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	19.12.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Lonnie 2020-08-07 08:21:24 UTC

Kubuntu 20.04 is a long term support release that currently uses Dolphin 19.12.3.

For the last few weeks, Dolphin has not been recognizing newly added files and I have to type ctrl-F5 constantly in order to see what's really in the folder I'm working from. Weirdly, even if I navigate to a folder AFTER a new file was just added to that folder, then too do I have to hit ctrl-F5 to see that recently added file (I wouldn't expect this problem to go to that degree; you'd think that navigating to any folder should always show the latest state of that folder).

Previously, Dolphin seemed to maintain almost real-time awareness of the folder I already have opened. For example, If I'd use some other application to save a file to a folder that I'm already have open in Dolphin, that newly saved file would pop into the list, sorted an everything (if I recall correctly).

I tried to get help with this here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1264620/

But, no one offered any suggestions.

I see you guys have already made later releases of Dolphin, but I really hope that the Kubuntu team will give special attention to Kubuntu 20.04 (since it is a long term support release) and do what it takes to keep Kubuntu 20.04 using a version of Dolphin that works well.

Comment 1 Lonnie 2020-08-07 08:29:00 UTC

Downstream: https://bugs.launchpad.net/dolphin/+bug/1890791

Comment 2 Christoph Feck 2020-08-26 20:06:22 UTC

Cannot reproduce. On my system (openSUSE Tumbleweed), when I use "mkdir" or "touch" in Konsole to create a new item, it is automatically added in the Dolphin view. Also, "rm" removes the item from the Dolphin view.

Comment 3 Elvis Angelaccio 2020-08-30 23:45:13 UTC

Sounds like a broken inotify.

Comment 4 equeim 2020-12-11 20:18:07 UTC

I regularly see this on Fedora 33 with Dolphin 20.08.3

Comment 5 equeim 2020-12-11 20:19:57 UTC

(In reply to equeim from comment #4)
> I regularly see this on Fedora 33 with Dolphin 20.08.3

(not every time, but at least once a day)

Comment 6 Patrick Silva 2021-04-14 13:32:22 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 387663 ***