lost folder settings on upgrade to 12.04

[Martin Albisetti]

When upgrading to 12.04, all the settings for how folders should be displayed (list view, 50%, etc) have been lost and reset to the default.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.2.1-2ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-7.13-generic 3.2.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-7-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jan 4 22:26:41 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-04 (0 days ago)

[Rick Spencer (rick-rickspencer3)]

This is the kind of thing that I think we should have automated tests for, if possible

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Martin, did you upgrade from lucid or natty? Or was this from oneiric?

[Martin Albisetti (beuno)]

From Lucid to Precise.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Ah, thanks. Then this is most likely fallout from bug 920894 (fixed an hour ago), possibly from bug 916441.

Can you please try running "gsettings-data-convert" and see what happens?

@Rick: We do have an automated test for this since yesterday :-)

[Martin Albisetti (beuno)]

Martin, I already manually over-wrote the settings, so it may not be useful anymore. Ran gsettings-data-convert anyway with no output or visible changes.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Ah, if you ran it 7 hours ago, the unity-2d fix should have kicked in. If you already have customized settings, it wouldn't work any more, right. I'm afraid there's nothing that we can retroactively do for you any more at this point, though :-(

However, we have automated tests for this now, which should help a lot to ensure that this doesn't happen in the future.

Thank you for your report!