Yes, I just renamed the entire .nautilus directory and logged back on, and it created a working set of files for me. Since all the other users were working ok I could assume that it was something in my directories.
Thanks for the help, it is quite difficult being this early on the learning curve. Rgds John On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 11:20, Tim Wright wrote: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, John Ascroft wrote: > > > directory which contains some XML files, none dated today and a > > thumbnails directory which doesn;t seem relevant. > > > > Any ideas where to look to sort ou Nautilus? > > Unfortunatly Nautilus isn't working at the moment for me (aaah, Debian > Unstable---but I use KDE anyway). > > My guess would be one of the XML files is corrupt. They define things like > how big windows are for each directory, where they are and stuff like > that. Try moving them to a different directory and restarting Nautilus > (that way you can move them back if necessary). > > Tim Wright > > Assistant Lecturer > Department of Computer Science > University of Canterbury > > http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13 >