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unkle

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Registered: 2024-08-11

Posts: 5

File "explicit_filter.restore" keeps being created in home directory.

I have an empty file named "explicit_filter.restore" that keeps being created even though I keep deleting it. I would like to find what keeps creating it in my home directory and prevent it from being created.

Running

stat

  on the file gives:

File: explicit_filter.restore
  Size: 0         	Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   regular empty file
Device: 8,18	Inode: 25711534    Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: ( 1000/   unkle)   Gid: ( 1000/   unkle)
Access: 2024-10-02 00:19:57.267031125 +0300
Modify: 2024-10-01 23:57:13.300745631 +0300
Change: 2024-10-01 23:57:13.300745631 +0300
 Birth: 2024-10-01 23:53:57.900886673 +0300

jrl

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Registered: 2016-02-12

Posts: 19

Re: File "explicit_filter.restore" keeps being created in home directory.

I have the same issue. A quick Google search indicates that this file is created by Spotify app as a result of a very recent update. So I guess we just need to hope that Spotify developers reverse this behaviour.

Last edited by jrl (2024-10-02 07:44:07)

unnilquadium

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Registered: 2017-08-27

Posts: 86

Re: File "explicit_filter.restore" keeps being created in home directory.

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Deskto … -p/6399472

tritoke

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Registered: 2024-10-07

Posts: 1

Re: File "explicit_filter.restore" keeps being created in home directory.

I wrote this slight bodge because it was annoying me too much:
https://github.com/tritoke/explicit_filter_remover

it just uses inotify to tell when the file is created and then removes it again if it is.
Not pretty but it does work.

MarkB97

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Registered: 2024-10-16

Posts: 1

Re: File "explicit_filter.restore" keeps being created in home directory.

Changing the work path of spotify in its shortcut fixes this, just change it to /tmp or any other folder

cminusplus

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Registered: 2024-10-26

Posts: 1

Re: File "explicit_filter.restore" keeps being created in home directory.

The latest spotify update fixed that