[ubuntu-uk] Screenshot: can't clear old image files, where are they
Hi, I have upgraded to 14:10, and picked up a bug or two along the way. This one is a nuisance, because I use screenshots a lot on my blog. Every time I try to make a new screenshot, it just creates a new copy of an old one. Therefore, it is storing them somewhere in a queue, and when I try to make a new one, it puts that at the bottom of the queue and offers me a fresh edition of the snapshot that is stuck at the top. Or a selection from several that are stuck there, but never the new one. The official location for all screenshots is set by me as the desktop, and I have repeatedly deleted everything on there, including hidden files. These things must be stored somewhere else. So where are they all, so that I can clear them, and perhaps find some way of preventing them from accumulating like this again? Best to all, Rowan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screenshot: can't clear old image files, where are they
On 15 November 2014 12:13, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have upgraded to 14:10, and picked up a bug or two along the way. This one is a nuisance, because I use screenshots a lot on my blog. Every time I try to make a new screenshot, it just creates a new copy of an old one. Therefore, it is storing them somewhere in a queue, and when I try to make a new one, it puts that at the bottom of the queue and offers me a fresh edition of the snapshot that is stuck at the top. Or a selection from several that are stuck there, but never the new one. The official location for all screenshots is set by me as the desktop, and I have repeatedly deleted everything on there, including hidden files. These things must be stored somewhere else. So where are they all, so that I can clear them, and perhaps find some way of preventing them from accumulating like this again? When you click on print screen (if that is how you are taking a snapshot) what does it show for Save in Folder? Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screenshot: can't clear old image files, where are they
On 15/11/14 12:42, Colin Law wrote: On 15 November 2014 12:13, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have upgraded to 14:10, and picked up a bug or two along the way. This one is a nuisance, because I use screenshots a lot on my blog. Every time I try to make a new screenshot, it just creates a new copy of an old one. Therefore, it is storing them somewhere in a queue, and when I try to make a new one, it puts that at the bottom of the queue and offers me a fresh edition of the snapshot that is stuck at the top. Or a selection from several that are stuck there, but never the new one. The official location for all screenshots is set by me as the desktop, and I have repeatedly deleted everything on there, including hidden files. These things must be stored somewhere else. So where are they all, so that I can clear them, and perhaps find some way of preventing them from accumulating like this again? When you click on print screen (if that is how you are taking a snapshot) what does it show for Save in Folder? Colin I haven't been using Print Screen, I have been using the Screenshot application, because I always want to select an area by hand. But it is interesting that the Print Screen command always reverts the destination folder to Pictures, no matter how often I try to change it to Desktop. But this doesn't really solve my problem. I can find the resulting image file, whether it is in Desktop or in Pictures. the trouble is, it is not the present screen, but an old one, stored somewhere and regurgitated repeatedly. So the question must be, where? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screenshot: can't clear old image files, where are they
On 15 November 2014 12:50, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/11/14 12:42, Colin Law wrote: On 15 November 2014 12:13, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have upgraded to 14:10, and picked up a bug or two along the way. This one is a nuisance, because I use screenshots a lot on my blog. Every time I try to make a new screenshot, it just creates a new copy of an old one. Therefore, it is storing them somewhere in a queue, and when I try to make a new one, it puts that at the bottom of the queue and offers me a fresh edition of the snapshot that is stuck at the top. Or a selection from several that are stuck there, but never the new one. The official location for all screenshots is set by me as the desktop, and I have repeatedly deleted everything on there, including hidden files. These things must be stored somewhere else. So where are they all, so that I can clear them, and perhaps find some way of preventing them from accumulating like this again? When you click on print screen (if that is how you are taking a snapshot) what does it show for Save in Folder? Colin I haven't been using Print Screen, I have been using the Screenshot application, because I always want to select an area by hand. But it is interesting that the Print Screen command always reverts the destination folder to Pictures, no matter how often I try to change it to Desktop. But this doesn't really solve my problem. I can find the resulting image file, whether it is in Desktop or in Pictures. the trouble is, it is not the present screen, but an old one, stored somewhere and regurgitated repeatedly. So the question must be, where? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screenshot: can't clear old image files, where are they
On 15 November 2014 12:50, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/11/14 12:42, Colin Law wrote: On 15 November 2014 12:13, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have upgraded to 14:10, and picked up a bug or two along the way. This one is a nuisance, because I use screenshots a lot on my blog. Every time I try to make a new screenshot, it just creates a new copy of an old one. Therefore, it is storing them somewhere in a queue, and when I try to make a new one, it puts that at the bottom of the queue and offers me a fresh edition of the snapshot that is stuck at the top. Or a selection from several that are stuck there, but never the new one. The official location for all screenshots is set by me as the desktop, and I have repeatedly deleted everything on there, including hidden files. These things must be stored somewhere else. So where are they all, so that I can clear them, and perhaps find some way of preventing them from accumulating like this again? When you click on print screen (if that is how you are taking a snapshot) what does it show for Save in Folder? Colin I haven't been using Print Screen, I have been using the Screenshot application, because I always want to select an area by hand. But it is interesting that the Print Screen command always reverts the destination folder to Pictures, no matter how often I try to change it to Desktop. But this doesn't really solve my problem. I can find the resulting image file, whether it is in Desktop or in Pictures. the trouble is, it is not the present screen, but an old one, stored somewhere and regurgitated repeatedly. So the question must be, where? Just to clarify, are you saying that if you hit printscreen, enter a filename, select an appropriate folder, and hit save, that it saves a file where requested, with the correct name, but with the wrong contents? Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screenshot: can't clear old image files, where are they
On 15/11/14 13:38, Colin Law wrote: On 15 November 2014 12:50, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/11/14 12:42, Colin Law wrote: On 15 November 2014 12:13, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have upgraded to 14:10, and picked up a bug or two along the way. This one is a nuisance, because I use screenshots a lot on my blog. Every time I try to make a new screenshot, it just creates a new copy of an old one. Therefore, it is storing them somewhere in a queue, and when I try to make a new one, it puts that at the bottom of the queue and offers me a fresh edition of the snapshot that is stuck at the top. Or a selection from several that are stuck there, but never the new one. The official location for all screenshots is set by me as the desktop, and I have repeatedly deleted everything on there, including hidden files. These things must be stored somewhere else. So where are they all, so that I can clear them, and perhaps find some way of preventing them from accumulating like this again? When you click on print screen (if that is how you are taking a snapshot) what does it show for Save in Folder? Colin I haven't been using Print Screen, I have been using the Screenshot application, because I always want to select an area by hand. But it is interesting that the Print Screen command always reverts the destination folder to Pictures, no matter how often I try to change it to Desktop. But this doesn't really solve my problem. I can find the resulting image file, whether it is in Desktop or in Pictures. the trouble is, it is not the present screen, but an old one, stored somewhere and regurgitated repeatedly. So the question must be, where? Just to clarify, are you saying that if you hit printscreen, enter a filename, select an appropriate folder, and hit save, that it saves a file where requested, with the correct name, but with the wrong contents? Colin yep. old contents. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screenshot: can't clear old image files, where are they
On Sat, 2014-11-15 at 12:50 +, Rowan Berkeley wrote: I haven't been using Print Screen, I have been using the Screenshot application Rowan, pardon my naivety, but have you tried Shutter as the screenshot app - it has gone it's gone through several system upgrades here [new system, old home folder]. It is, in fact, my app of choice for all the functionality you describe. -- Bill B. [SuperEngineer] -- -Registered Linux User 523667- -Registered Ubuntu User 32366- -Free as in Freedom-- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screenshot: can't clear old image files, where are they
On 15/11/14 14:25, Bill B. wrote: On Sat, 2014-11-15 at 12:50 +, Rowan Berkeley wrote: I haven't been using Print Screen, I have been using the Screenshot application Rowan, pardon my naivety, but have you tried Shutter as the screenshot app - it has gone it's gone through several system upgrades here [new system, old home folder]. It is, in fact, my app of choice for all the functionality you describe. I just installed Shutter, following your suggestion - and rather extraordinary this - it is doing exactly the same thing: printing, as current screenshot, a screenshot which was actually taken at 0915 this am. So whatever the problem is, it affects Shutter equally. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screenshot: can't clear old image files, where are they
On 15 November 2014 14:44, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/11/14 14:25, Bill B. wrote: On Sat, 2014-11-15 at 12:50 +, Rowan Berkeley wrote: I haven't been using Print Screen, I have been using the Screenshot application Rowan, pardon my naivety, but have you tried Shutter as the screenshot app - it has gone it's gone through several system upgrades here [new system, old home folder]. It is, in fact, my app of choice for all the functionality you describe. I just installed Shutter, following your suggestion - and rather extraordinary this - it is doing exactly the same thing: printing, as current screenshot, a screenshot which was actually taken at 0915 this am. So whatever the problem is, it affects Shutter equally. This is a complete guess but it sounds like Screenshot saves its output somewhere and then copies it to the destination, but that the scratch space has a temporary file in it that isn't getting overwritten. Do you have other user accounts on your system or could you have run screenshot as root for some reason? The other possibility that comes to mind is that your system time is wrong for some reason and that screenshot is creating a file with an out of date timestamp and that's confusing it. I'll have a quick look through the source code and see if there are any clues. -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood TBA are particularly glib -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screenshot: can't clear old image files, where are they
On 15/11/14 17:19, Simon Greenwood wrote: On 15 November 2014 14:44, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/11/14 14:25, Bill B. wrote: On Sat, 2014-11-15 at 12:50 +, Rowan Berkeley wrote: I haven't been using Print Screen, I have been using the Screenshot application Rowan, pardon my naivety, but have you tried Shutter as the screenshot app - it has gone it's gone through several system upgrades here [new system, old home folder]. It is, in fact, my app of choice for all the functionality you describe. I just installed Shutter, following your suggestion - and rather extraordinary this - it is doing exactly the same thing: printing, as current screenshot, a screenshot which was actually taken at 0915 this am. So whatever the problem is, it affects Shutter equally. This is a complete guess but it sounds like Screenshot saves its output somewhere and then copies it to the destination, but that the scratch space has a temporary file in it that isn't getting overwritten. Do you have other user accounts on your system or could you have run screenshot as root for some reason? The other possibility that comes to mind is that your system time is wrong for some reason and that screenshot is creating a file with an out of date timestamp and that's confusing it. I'll have a quick look through the source code and see if there are any clues. Thanks.. I don't think it's anything I've done - remember, I just upgraded to 14:10 yesterday early am, and the problem has been ongoing from there, and not before. I should say that it is not unusual for some system variable to get knocked off course during an upgrade. I quite often used to find user preferences had been changed by mistake during upgrades and had to be reset. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
