When restoring, Deja Dup creates a huge window, rather than an ordinary one with scrollbars

[nigelj]

During the restore process, after scanning for available files, if you check several files and folders - e.g. a few dozen - and click 'Continue', the next window that Deja Dup creates is often too tall for the available screen. It therefore extends across two or more workspaces (Linux desktops). It is impossible to resize this window and it stays that size throughout the restore process (which can be several hours). This messes up the normal use of workspaces, and I think has led to crashing Compiz and therefore the whole session in Ubuntu 12.04 (fresh install).

lsb_release -d
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS

dpkg-query -W deja-dup duplicity
deja-dup 22.0-0ubuntu3
duplicity 0.6.18-0ubuntu3.1

gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.DejaDup > /tmp/deja-dup.gsettings
cat /tmp/deja-dup.gsettings
org.gnome.DejaDup backend 'file'
org.gnome.DejaDup delete-after 0
org.gnome.DejaDup exclude-list ['$TRASH', '$DOWNLOAD']
org.gnome.DejaDup include-list ['$HOME']
org.gnome.DejaDup last-backup ''
org.gnome.DejaDup last-restore '2013-03-21T13:59:01.625819Z'
org.gnome.DejaDup last-run '2013-03-21T13:59:01.625819Z'
org.gnome.DejaDup periodic false
org.gnome.DejaDup periodic-period 7
org.gnome.DejaDup prompt-check '2013-03-18T21:38:04.967932Z'
org.gnome.DejaDup root-prompt true
org.gnome.DejaDup welcomed false
org.gnome.DejaDup.File icon ''
org.gnome.DejaDup.File name ''
org.gnome.DejaDup.File path 'sftp://nigel@192.168.0.102:22/home/nigel/backups/deja-dup'
org.gnome.DejaDup.File relpath @ay []
org.gnome.DejaDup.File short-name ''
org.gnome.DejaDup.File type 'normal'
org.gnome.DejaDup.File uuid ''
org.gnome.DejaDup.Rackspace container 'earth'
org.gnome.DejaDup.Rackspace username ''
org.gnome.DejaDup.S3 bucket ''
org.gnome.DejaDup.S3 folder 'earth'
org.gnome.DejaDup.S3 id ''
org.gnome.DejaDup.U1 folder '/deja-dup/earth'

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

This sounds like you are referring to the “restore missing files” flow, which has now been removed in favor of an in-app browse and restore experience. Thank you for the report!