• Folder Disappears Randomly but Computer Thinks It's Still There
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I copied over an album from my downloads folder to my music folder, all neat and organised how I like it. I then went into Rhythmbox (which was open the whole time) and found it, but it complained that it couldn't access the file. I went back to the folder I placed my album into, but the folder for the album was gone. It was not in the trash can. I tried pasting a new folder in there and renaming it to the same (...Like a Cannonball to the Ocean Floor), but it complained that the name is already being used in the folder (the folder where the album folder disappeared from). I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 beta 2. Can anyone help? [editline]09:18PM[/editline] It appears that the ellipsis caused this. I'm submitting a bug report. [editline]09:29PM[/editline] Scratch that. I have no idea how the hell to file this. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Submit it to the Rhythmbox bugtracker ([url]https://bugs.launchpad.net/rhythmbox/+bugs[/url]) as a 'usability' issue or something similar. It's caused because, in Linux, files/folders with filenames prefixed with dots are automatically hidden - if you look in your home folder in Nautilus and right-click, 'show hidden items', you'll see loads of folders named things like .gnome2, .firefox, .gimp, etc. Rename the folder so it doesn't have the ellipsis and it should be fine.
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