Desktop Apps

[gldvorak]

I have two files (amongst others) that I want on one of my desktops because I use them often. They happen to both reside in the same folder. They are Colors.odt and WhereSaved.odt.

WhereSaved acts normally, Colors will not open

WhereSaved points directly to the original file. Colors creates a desktop file under .local

I created the two icons on the desktop in the same way one after the other.

Hope someone has a clue.

George

[Snowhog]

Only from the images, it looks like Colors doesn't have an extension. Did you forget to give it one?

[gldvorak]

I drug Colors.odt exactly the same way that I drug WhereSaved.odt. What you see is the result. Adding .odt does not make it work.

Notice the tabs and the fact that one creates a file with the extension .desktop in that subdirectory. The only real difference between the two files is that Colors.odt is rather new whereas WhereSaved.odt has been around quite a while. They are both created by the same app.

I will dig up any info that anyone asks for. I just don't know what will be helpful. There are other files that work but these two are created by the same appo but act so differently. That is why I choose them.

[gldvorak]

OK, I had one file that worked as I expected and one that didn't. I made a copy of the one that worked and gave it a temporary name. I opened the new file and deleted the contents. Next I opened the file that did not work and copied and saved its contents and then pasted them into the new empty file. I then deleted the file that did not work and renamed the new file. Lo and Behold (as some one once said) now when I drag this new file onto the desktop it now works as I would expect.

No it was not permissions, they were identical between the two files, including advanced permissions.

I was hoping that someone would have an explanation for when this might happen again.

[woodsmoke]

is it a permissions thing, in either the specific file or general in Dolphin?

woodsmoke