linuxmint / linuxmint/warpinator
Warpinator resets save location to default ~ without warning
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Description
Distribution
Mint 21.3
Package version
1.8.3
Frequency
Quite often
Bug description
I am migrating from my windows laptop to my linux mint desktop, so doing a lot of file transfers....a little at a time since big transfers seem to have a tendency to fail.
Anyway, about 2 or 3 times a day I get a message that the files failed to save, and when I check it's because the save directory appears to have reset to the default ~ directory rather than the sub-folder that I assigned.
This is a problem when it happens mid-transfer because warpinator seems to delete partial transfers, a design choice of compromise I realize, but it makes the bug even worse :-)
Steps to reproduce
Keep using warpinator until it happens....I don't have specific steps to reproduce
Expected behavior
Folder should not spontaneously revert to ~
Additional information
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Research direction
No source file, test, entry point, or deterministic reproduction is provided. First obtain a reproducible sequence around the configured save directory and inspect where that setting is persisted and reloaded. Done means the selected folder remains unchanged during repeated transfers and the regression is covered by a test.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- linux
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100