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GosuSan

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Registered: 2014-08-19

Posts: 32

Problem with KDE Places - they don't save

Hey everybody,

I got a Problem with KDE / Dolphin. I really like the "Places"-Feature in KDE, since there are several constantly changing folders that I use really frequently.
The places are a good way to keep them organized and have fast access to them.

But I won't get it to work:

I add a "Place" to the Sidebar (doesn't matter if per Rightclick or per Drag'n'Drop)

There is no ~/.local/share/user-places.xbel File generated at all (i think this should be the File where the Places are stored)
If I generate this file, it is not touched when I add new Places.

~/.kde4/share/apps/kfileplaces/bookmarks.xml File exists but does not get modified (there are the standart places like trash, home etc)

The places disappear as soon as I close Dolphin.

The Folder / File permissions seem okay.

Any idea how to fix this? I'd really like to use this feature.

I really googled a lot, but the only common similar problem seems to be that some applications overwrite "user-places.xbel" so entries get lost.
But i don't even have that file.

Thanks in advance!

GosuSan

PS: pacman says all packages are up to date, so it should not be a version problem.
PPS: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/44186 <- I am not the only one I guess, but there is also no sulution.

Last edited by GosuSan (2015-03-26 10:28:55)

desaparecido

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From: Liège, Belgium

Registered: 2010-03-14

Posts: 155

Re: Problem with KDE Places - they don't save

hi, I had the same problem but I use git version, so with a recently build of all the packages was solved, I don't know which one was the problem but now all works fine, so I suppose than with future updates in package's repo will be solved.  I don't know if there are another way to workaround it

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Soukyuu

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Registered: 2014-04-08

Posts: 854

Re: Problem with KDE Places - they don't save

There was a bug in kbookmarks that caused this, I don't know if it has made it to the stable repos by now or not. Sometimes it helps to install konqueror, make sure dolphin is closed, and then set up the places bar with konqueror. This seems to stick.

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kar

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From: Berlin

Registered: 2013-01-30

Posts: 19

Re: Problem with KDE Places - they don't save

There was a bug in kbookmarks that caused this, I don't know if it has made it to the stable repos by now or not.

Yes, the bug was solved for me by the version 5.8.0 of kbookmarks. With this version I have no problems with the places in Dolphin (I'm using the Qt4 version from the arch repos).

GosuSan

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Registered: 2014-08-19

Posts: 32

Re: Problem with KDE Places - they don't save

... Sometimes it helps to install konqueror, make sure dolphin is closed, and then set up the places bar with konqueror. This seems to stick.

Jep this worked as a workaround. Thank you very much, good enough for me for now, hope this will be fixed for me as well in a later update