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Soft link to a very small file is shown as an ordinary file, not a soft link
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RESOLVED: FIXED

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Description SegundoBob 2012-08-22 20:07:50 CEST
I made soft links to several files:

Example:
ln -s /home/ldi/bzr/bash/bobSwatch

The link to a 269-byte file is shown correctly as a soft link in both the first column icon and the file properties.

The link to a 52-byte file is shown incorrectly as an ordinary file in both the first column icon and the file properties.

But the file is a soft link:

2012-08-22 10:34:26 /home/ldi/bin
$ ls -l bobSwatch
lrwxrwxrwx 1 bob02 users 28 Aug 22 10:34 bobSwatch -> /home/ldi/bzr/bash/bobSwatch
2012-08-22 10:45:02 /home/ldi/bin
$ 

This repeats 100% every time.

I'm running:
openSUSE 12.1
Kernel Linux 3.1.10-1.16-desktop
XFCE desktop environment
Comment 1 SegundoBob 2012-08-22 20:35:35 CEST
On further use, I see that this is yet another of many cases where Thunar fails to notice changes to the file system.  Eventually, Thunar notices the change and correctly shows the files as soft links.  (I was moving the file and then making a soft link in the file's old directory.)  When Thunar notices changes is unpredictable.  This makes Thunar very untrustworthy and annoying.  Can't you please make the information shown by Thunar more reliable.
Comment 2 haarp 2013-09-28 08:09:48 CEST
*** Bug 10162 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Harald Judt editbugs 2015-02-21 11:51:18 CET
Should be fixed in 1.6.5.
Comment 4 haarp 2015-02-21 12:52:14 CET
Confirmed, 1.6.5 fixed symlinks. Thanks!

Bug #9234

Reported by:
SegundoBob
Reported on: 2012-08-22
Last modified on: 2015-02-21
Duplicates (1):
  • 10162 Thunar fails to detect certain filesystem changes

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Assignee:
Jannis Pohlmann
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