On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:05:44 +0100 Neil Bird <neil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > A colleague here has had a fresh install of Fedora 9 for a while, and the > only remaining issue he has is that, after being logged in for a while, he > starts getting a an ever increasing slew of extra icons on his desktop that > don't match devices or actual files in ~/Desktop. > > Now, these aren't *totally* fictitious; it appears to be something to do > with a '.snapshot' directory (or it's updates) that our network filer > maintains on our NFS-shared home directories (containing hourly.0, .1, etc., > nightly.0, etc.). I don't believe there's anything special about this > directory. > > Mostly, it seems that the icons that appear seem to be dirs. and files in > in them (albeit skipping the 'hourly.0' level) such that the rogue icons > appear to be from the home directory. > > We're not quite sure what causes this; it may be the backup process > occurring (once every few hours). He *can* force a fictional '.snapshot' to > appear on the desktop by inserting a USB stick. When the stick's removed, > .snapshot stays when the USB icon goes. The desktop shows the stuff in the "Desktop/" directory by default. If it contains hourly or daily snapshot directories so will the users desktop... Alan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
