Rox bug when deleting large folders quietly?
Rox bug when deleting large folders quietly?
Sometimes when I delete large folders and click the quiet check box, all the icons disappear from the desktop after it deletes a number of files. I have to restart xwindows to get it back. If I just hold down the enter key to delete everything in a folder, no problem. I've been compling games and have some large folders. I've had this happen on different computers and with many new pup001 files.
- BarryK
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kirk,
I haven't had that problem.
I have deleted some very large folders, and the only thing is it can take a long time.
Often I just run "rm -rf foldername" on the commandline to avoid the delay.
I wonder if Rox is requiring excessive temporary memory during the deleting, that is causing your problem?
My ramdisk is effectively about 500M, as I have a swap partition, so unlikely to fill up /tmp.
I haven't had that problem.
I have deleted some very large folders, and the only thing is it can take a long time.
Often I just run "rm -rf foldername" on the commandline to avoid the delay.
I wonder if Rox is requiring excessive temporary memory during the deleting, that is causing your problem?
My ramdisk is effectively about 500M, as I have a swap partition, so unlikely to fill up /tmp.
- BarryK
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Looking at my own post, I don't see why Rox would need that much temp memory to delete. So, no, I have no answer to your problem.BarryK wrote:kirk,
I haven't had that problem.
I have deleted some very large folders, and the only thing is it can take a long time.
Often I just run "rm -rf foldername" on the commandline to avoid the delay.
I wonder if Rox is requiring excessive temporary memory during the deleting, that is causing your problem?
My ramdisk is effectively about 500M, as I have a swap partition, so unlikely to fill up /tmp.
I ran into this too
I seem to recall running into something like this as well when I was trying to get rid of the beta Mozilla from Puppy 1.04. Needless to say, I didn't trust 1.04 and went back to 1.03 for quite a while because of this unpredictable bug (since I never knew for sure what was really deleted.)
Normally I don't mind trying to re-create bugs (I enjoy doing so) but when it comes to random deletions of files, I'm afraid to ever go back to Puppy 1.04....
Normally I don't mind trying to re-create bugs (I enjoy doing so) but when it comes to random deletions of files, I'm afraid to ever go back to Puppy 1.04....
Puppy sometimes crashes on me
maybe Puppy is a little less stable since the /.usr_cram and the /.usr_devx mount points started being used?
i know other live distros like Knoppix were having some stabilty problems with unionfs
yesterday Puppy crashed (i had downloaded a movie, about 160 megs, to /tmp ... ram ... and Puppy crashed not long after i finished playing it) ... the rox pinboard disappeared and most programs wouldn't start, like rxvt, firefox, gxmessage ... kp could run though ... i've wondered if sometimes /usr disappears ... in this case, i would think kp wouldn't start if /usr was missing
anyway, i could shutdown X by pressing ctrl+alt+backspace, but i couldn't restart X ... or run anything from console mode, not even ls ... there wasn't a # prompt either
i have /sbin/check_space commented out in .xinitrc
maybe Puppy is a little less stable since the /.usr_cram and the /.usr_devx mount points started being used?
i know other live distros like Knoppix were having some stabilty problems with unionfs
yesterday Puppy crashed (i had downloaded a movie, about 160 megs, to /tmp ... ram ... and Puppy crashed not long after i finished playing it) ... the rox pinboard disappeared and most programs wouldn't start, like rxvt, firefox, gxmessage ... kp could run though ... i've wondered if sometimes /usr disappears ... in this case, i would think kp wouldn't start if /usr was missing
anyway, i could shutdown X by pressing ctrl+alt+backspace, but i couldn't restart X ... or run anything from console mode, not even ls ... there wasn't a # prompt either
i have /sbin/check_space commented out in .xinitrc