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SpaceFM File Manager
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SpaceFM's displayed not being updated after use of Clementine music player #390

Closed prodigalgvs closed 10 years ago

prodigalgvs commented 10 years ago

Situation:

I installed Clementine 1.2.0, and created a music library. --After Clementine started scanning the folder of the library, SpaceFM's display stopped updating. I.e., changes made via copy, move, create folder, delete etc., are not displayed w/o first hitting F5 etc.. --Only a system restart will fix it. --Use of Clementine to scan its database, or add music etc. recreates problem with same results.

I removed Clementine.

However, I had experienced this issue back in the SpaceFM .5.0 and .6.0 days w/o Clementine being a factor.

IgnorantGuru commented 10 years ago

This sounds like a system level problem in inotify triggered or caused by Clementine. Feel free to add additional info below and this issue can be reopened if its status changes.

prodigalgvs commented 10 years ago

My question then is: why didn't Thunar or PcmanFM also exhibit the same troubles with the display updating?

Gordon VS gvscheik1@cciwireless.ca

On 13-11-26 06:47 AM, IgnorantGuru wrote:

This sounds like a system level problem in inotify triggered or caused by Clementine. Feel free to add additional info below and this issue can be reopened if its status changes.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/IgnorantGuru/spacefm/issues/390#issuecomment-29293022.

IgnorantGuru commented 10 years ago

My question then is: why didn't Thunar or PcmanFM also exhibit the same troubles with the display updating?

These programs use a different monitoring method from SpaceFM, so any issue may affect them differently. Just because you only see a problem in SpaceFM does not mean SpaceFM is the cause.

You implied that restarting SpaceFM did not correct the problem, so this makes it highly unlikely that there is a problem in SpaceFM's inotify code. Even if restarting SpaceFM alone corrects the problem, it still is likely that a system-level issue is affecting it, at least based on the description.