nautilus showing hidden files by default, does not retain view setting

[Eric Ongerth]

Summary:
Since 14.04, the nautilus file manager is always showing hidden items when I open it. The setting can be changed, but reverts when I close the app so the next time I use it it again defaults to showing hidden items.

Expected behavior: nautilus defaults to not showing hidden files and folders. User can press Ctrl-H or use View > Show Hidden Files to toggle the setting. And the new setting persists when nautilus is closed and later re-launched (or in future sessions).

Current behavior: nautilus defaults to SHOWING hidden files and folders. The setting can be toggled as expected. The setting does not persist after the window is closed.

This is occurring both on the system I reported it from (an upgrade from 13.10 to 14.04) and on another system with a fresh install of 14.04.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Apr 20 14:00:07 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-22 (180 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-11 (8 days ago)

[Sami Jaktholm (sjakthol)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1247221, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report.

You can workaround this issue by following the steps below:
1. Open Edit - Preferences
2. Uncheck option 'Show hidden and backup files'

That should make Nautilus remember the show hidden files setting toggled via Ctrl+H or View->Show hidden files.

Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Eric Ongerth (ericongerth)]

Thank you for the workaround. I've added some comments to the other bug report because it did not sufficiently describe the bug I was seeing (in fact it conflicted in one way). But it's close enough to still consider it a duplicate so I will communicate over there instead.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.