Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I been noticing this for a while now. It started maybe a couple months > ago. At first, I figured it is a bug and will be fixed but now I wonder > if it is just me. As some know, I have a lot of hard drives. Sometimes > I unmount those drives and naturally Dolphin returns to the first > directory that it can see. I expect that. It has always worked that > way and it should. Thing is, when I mount those drives again, while I > can navigate in the main window, the folders panel does not update even > after I enter the newly mounted directories. On occasion, it does. > Most of the time it doesn't. Example. I have path /a/b/c/d/e and then > files. The mount point, encrypted or not, starts at c. If I unmount, > Dolphin returns to b. When I remount, whether it is a encrypted drive > or not, the main window updates when I click on c directory but the > folders panel never shows the little arrow or expands as it normally > does. Even if I navigate in the main window all the way to the e > directory, the folders panel never 'sees' the newly mounted > folders/directories. It used to expand as I navigate through directories. > > There are rare times when it does update once I navigate into a > sub-directory but it is rare. Usually, the only way to make it work > correctly is to start a new instance of Dolphin and duplicate the tabs > and close the old instance. Once it fails to update the newly mounted > drive, I can't find a way to force it to update. Again, it behaves this > way on a hard drive whether encrypted or not. > > Is anyone else seeing this sort of behavior? I've looked to see if there > is some new setting for this but I can't find anything, obvious at > least. It's kind of annoying since sometimes I have about a dozen tabs > open usually to different places that I'm trying to organize files in. > Sometimes I have to use the back button to see where it was. Can be time > consuming. > > If someone else is seeing this, let me know I'm not alone even if you > don't have a fix. If this is a bug, it may need to be reported. Most > likely to KDE I'd guess. > > Thanks. > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
I have a little update on the side pane not updating after mounting a hard drive. Let's say you have a directory structure that looks like this: /mnt/<mount point>/a/b/c/d When you logged out or unmounted the drive, you were in directory b, c, d or further down even. Sometimes even directory 'a' may be enough. If you open a new tab and go to the mount point, right under /mnt in this case, and hit F5 to reload/refresh, it tends to pop up as it should with the added directories in the side pane. After that, you can close that tab and go back and refresh the others which should show the complete path and such in the side pane. I've only done this a few times so I can't say it works 100% of the time. However, it has worked the several times I've done it in the past couple weeks. This may be a bug or is caused by some setting somewhere. I don't know for sure the cause. It did start after a update a while back as mentioned above. Whatever the cause is, maybe this is a workaround. It may not even be Dolphin. It could be something Dolphin uses to get the directory info. I'm just glad to figure out a workaround. Sometimes I have several tabs open to different locations and losing those locations would cause issues. I may have things I need to process but not know where or what those are if I lose the info in the pane and have to restart Dolphin. Thanks to all that tried to help. Maybe this will help someone else who googles this up. ;-) Dale :-) :-)
