File moved with Cut-Paste from a search filter still appears on original screen and if deleted disappears from new folder

[Xavier Guillot]

Affected version
Nautilus 3.38 on Ubuntu 20.10 (but I also saw this bug some months and versions ago)

I don't know if it's a specific Ubuntu bug or an upstream one, I reported it 1.5 month ago on Gitlab Gnome without any answer nor review:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/1723

Resume: File moved with "Cut" from a window with an active search filter, and pasted in another folder on a second Nautilus window (not a subfolder), still appears on the first original screen (list is not automatically updated) - and if deleted from here, actually they disappear from the new folder !

It can occur to loose important documents - I often make direct shift-deletes, without recycler storage...

Steps to reproduce
I open a Nautilus window, go to a folder and make a search filter, for example 20 files appear on the window which name contains my search filter.

If I select one of them, make Cut / Ctrl-X, open a new Nautilus window, go to another folder (which is not a subfolder of the first) and make Paste / Ctrl-V, it wells copy the file in the new folder.

If I switch to the first Nautilus window with the original folder and search filter active, the moved file still appears on the list and I can open it. I think I've made an error (Ctrl-C instead of Ctrl-X) so I shift-delete it, it disappears from the list and only 19 files remain.

Current behavior
But… If I go to the second Nautilus window and the 2nd folder, the file has also disappeared from it ! File in the first window was "transformed" to a link instead of being removed, and suppressing it also deletes the file in its new folder - in my case, I lost several documents like this because of Shift-Delete and not trash use.

Expected behavior
After Cut - Paste, in the case of 2 Nautilus windows are opened, the file(s) moved from the first one should not be still visible in the search list, there should be an automatic refresh.

If I do a Copy-Paste instead of a Cut-Paste, problem does not occur: delete only removes file in the fist original folder, not on the second. If I close the search filter, it's also OK, file(s) moved no more visible. And of course, if after Cut I stay in the same Nautilus window and go to another folder to paste, no problem: bug only occurs in case of a second window opened.

Thanks in advance and best regards.

[Xavier Guillot (valeryan-24)]

Problem is still present on Ubuntu 21.10 with Nautilus 40.2

[Xavier Guillot (valeryan-24)]

It seems that search results are given by Tracker, which is a separate app dedicated to searching. This is a config option / design choice.

To fix this, Nautilus would need to ping D-Bus that the file has moved, Tracker see's this event and updates it's cache and again notifies D-Bus that this event has happened.

Nautilus needs to subscribe to this (not just a one time fetch) and update any view which shows this file.

[nany (nany)]

Hello,

I have the same issue in Ubuntu 20.04 (Nautilus 3.36.3), Ubuntu 21.10 (Nautilus 40.2) and Ubuntu 22.04 (currently Nautilus 40.2 also).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[ar barzh paour (yannbaol)]

same thing on Ubuntu 22.04