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hoschi

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From: Ulm (Germany)

Registered: 2008-11-03

Posts: 476

[obsolet] Nautilus - Doesn't show new, modified or deleted files

Hello!

I just realized that Nautilus no longer shows file modifications. When a file is created with "touch foo" in a current working-directory of Nautilus, it isn't shown. I have to manually refresh with "Ctrl + F5" to see the new file. Anyone else affected? This worked for years without any problems, based on "inotify" (which replaced itself gamin and fam years ago).

Thanks

Last edited by hoschi (2015-08-19 12:51:56)

hussam

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Registered: 2006-03-26

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Re: [obsolet] Nautilus - Doesn't show new, modified or deleted files

I had a similar issue with kde's dolphin two years ago.
Perhaps you have too many files open.

I worked around it by creating a file

/etc/sysctl.d/97-filewatch-inotify.conf

with the following content:

fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 165536

For the current session:

echo 165536 > /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches

You can change that number to something that works better for you.
For example 1065536 which is over 1 million.

Last edited by hussam (2015-08-19 12:04:21)

hoschi

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From: Ulm (Germany)

Registered: 2008-11-03

Posts: 476

Re: [obsolet] Nautilus - Doesn't show new, modified or deleted files

Thank you! After a second reboot it seems to as fixed by itself. So I didn't changed the value currently.

I'm working on a large project with NetBeans, maybe this caused the inital problem and my box is running out of this "inotify watches". I will keep an eye on this.

mrechte

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Registered: 2011-05-04

Posts: 42

Re: [obsolet] Nautilus - Doesn't show new, modified or deleted files

Got the same problem recently. I increased from default 8192 to 32000. Thanks