Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin confusing different run instances.

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Am Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 07:54:25AM -0500 schrieb Dale:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I use Dolphin a lot.  I like it and all but recently, it started doing
>> something that annoys me.  When I'm doing something, I tend to open a
>> instance of Dolphin for whatever it is I'm doing.  I also leave
>> instances open and ready for when I do routine things.  Some things I do
>> so often, I leave them open all the time.  Usually that is four
>> instances.  If needed, for example when I'm getting videos off trail
>> cameras, I open another instance until I'm done with that task.  So, I
>> use Dolphin for different things on different desktops with tabs in
>> different places.  It just makes things easier, faster and works best
>> for me. 
>>
>> What I don't like is this, when I open a new instance, it tries to copy
>> the last instance I used that is still open.  When I open a new
>> instance, I want it to open where I want but not be affected by other
>> instances that are running.  Just as a example.  Yesterday I was trying
>> to copy videos from my trail cameras to a USB stick while also copying
>> and organizing them on my hard drive.  When I put in a USB stick or the
>> card from the camera, I click the notification thing and tell it to open
>> the USB stick or the card.  Thing is, it tries to copy the instance,
>> usually the one I use to watch TV from, which has a lot of open tabs.  I
>> have to close all the tabs I don't want to get things like it should be
>> to begin with. 
> Dolphin settings, very first page, very first setting: set it to open a 
> fixed location at startup. Then it will not restore any previous internal 
> state.
>
> -- Grüße | Greetings | Salut | Qapla’ Abolish Christmas, Joseph
> confessed everything!


I saw that setting.  First place I looked.  Thing is, since I didn't
want it to always start at the same place, I thought that wouldn't
work.  I thought that no matter what I clicked, it would open at that
place.  Given you said that would work, I tried it.  I set it to /, or
root, but if I click on a folder on the desktop, sure enough, it starts
and opens the folder I clicked on.  Did that a few times just to be
sure.  LOL  I also plugged in a USB stick, mounted it and then told the
notification thingy to open in File Manager.  Yep, it opened right where
it should.  I was looking for a instance setting or something since it
kept copying other running instances and their tabs.  I wouldn't have
ever thought to try that setting.

They might want to explain that setting a little bit.  While I saw it, I
certainly didn't expect it to behave this way.  I expected it to open at
that location no matter how Dolphin was started. 

I'll play with this a few days but so far, looks like a good solution. 

Thanks much.  I can stop pulling my hair out now. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

P. S.  Planning to try that checksum script soon.  It's a large number
of files so it will take a long time to run.  I think you mentioned that
if stopped, it will resume where it left off.  Oh, I did use rsync and
checksum option on backups the other day.  I couldn't check all the
files tho.  I just checked the ones recently accessed.  It found four
out of the few hundred I checked.  I restored them after some testing. 

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