I always set up dual booting systems by replacing the Linux user folders (Desktop, Documents, Pictures, etc.) with symbolic links to their corresponding user folders in the Windows' filesystem, like this: bash-4.1$ ls -l /home/pluto/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 pluto users 16 Dec 27 17:41 Desktop -> /mnt/windows/Users/Pluto/Desktop drwxr-xr-x 1 pluto users 18 Dec 27 17:41 Documents -> /mnt/windows/Users/Pluto/Documents drwxr-xr-x 1 pluto users 18 Dec 27 17:41 Downloads -> /mnt/windows/Users/Pluto/Downloads drwxr-xr-x 1 pluto users 14 Dec 27 17:41 Music -> /mnt/windows/Users/Pluto/Music drwxr-xr-x 1 pluto users 17 Dec 27 17:41 Pictures -> /mnt/windows/Users/Pluto/Pictures drwxr-xr-x 1 pluto users 15 Dec 27 17:41 Videos -> /mnt/windows/Users/Pluto/Videos Whenever new files/directories are created/deleted or moved to/from the Desktop folder, this is not shown in the current view of the Desktop, and the only way to see what changed is to right-click on the desktop and select "refresh" the view from the menu. It doesn't matter: - whether using the default "classic" desktop view or the resizable Folder View plasmoid; - the program used for changing the contents of the Desktop directory: changes can be made from terminal or Dolphin or even from the Desktop itself by right-clicking on the icons and selecting for deleting items; - the hardware in use (happens on ALL of my computers - no exceptions); - the Linux distribution in use (happens in openSUSE, Ubuntu, Fedora and others); - the Windows/NTFS version in use (happens at least since Windows 7) - the version of KDE/Plasma Shell (happens since as far as I can remember - back in the KDE4 years - and up until now); - the age of the operating system (happens on the newly installed OS, right after the user folders are replaced with symlinks to the NTFS partition). Please note: as far as I can tell, this problem does NOT happen when the Desktop folder resides on the Linux partition (I use EXT4 for the /home directory, but I never leave the user folders there, so maybe native filesystems are also affected, but I cannot tell for sure) However, this problem is always reproducible when the desktop view points to the Windows desktop.
Does this also affect e.g. Dolphin? If so, this is more likely a bug in KIO or the NTFS driver
Are you able to confirm if this happens in Dolphin as well as per Comment 1, thank you.
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