Sometimes the Dolphin file manager displays a “waiting bar” with a blue dot moving left and right all the time. It makes me nervous!
There is a message next to it, stating that the file folder is being loaded. But I do not know that there is anything happening, nor is there any need to load anything. There is also a little red “delete” button, but klicking on it achieves nothing.
How can I get rid of this nuisance?
what operating system and version are you using?
i suppose you are using KDE, but which version?
you say sometimes this happens–does it always happen in certain
directories, but never in some certain others?
are these directories on your local machine? in an internal hard
drive, or on an USB attached drive? or, maybe it is on another machine
on the local area network or maybe on the other side of earth? do
you always see this ‘nuisance’ on distant drives, but not local
drives? etc
and, please the next time you see this dot moving please take a screen
shot and up load it to paste.opensuse.org…and, give us the url…
this delete button, what would you suppose it would delete?
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DenverD
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I usually see that reading externally connected storage (eg USB) which has “gone to sleep” and needs to be woken up.
Recently have experienced that reading internal drives even when on the same drive as the system partition if haven’t accessed for a very long time.
In the former case, the cause is clear. The drive has to be actively spinning to be read.
in the latter case, my guess is that resources need to be re-allocated but since it’s only a recent development I’ve noticed I haven’t studied it for very long.
So, it can make a diff what is the folder you’re accessing. Besides “normal” directories, *NIX file systems typically use the folder metaphor representing block devices (eg drives) as well and the situation is different.
HTH,
Tony