Wallpapers being deleted

Bug #398317 reported by Antonio Roberts
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Gnome Wallchanger
Incomplete
Medium
Martin Owens

Bug Description

I've been using the wallchanger happily for a few months and thought I'd try downloading wallpapers from deviantart. I clicked on "Remove wallpapers after use" though made a backup of my wallpapers just in case. Surprisingly it did actually delete all of my old wallpapers instead of just deleting the ones that were downloaded. Is that the way it's supposed to work?

Also, I unchecked the box and still find that it's deleting my wallpapers. Here's the terminal output when it's grabbing a new wallpaper

 @ Downloading: http://backend.deviantart.com/rss.xml?q=in%3Acustomization/wallpaper%20sort%3Atime%20water&type=deviation
 @ Downloading: http://jeetdesignz.deviantart.com/art/Underwater-128711827
 @ Downloading: http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs47/f/2009/189/7/3/Underwater_by_jeetdesignz.jpg
 < Saving downloaded file to /usr/share/backgrounds/Underwater_by_jeetdesignz.jpg
 > Using wallpaper /usr/share/backgrounds/Underwater_by_jeetdesignz.jpg
 ! Deleting Old File /usr/share/backgrounds/Water_Collection_1_by_hooky3659.jpg

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Martin Owens (doctormo) wrote :

Can you make sure the option is not selected in the config and attach a screen shot of the dialog and the config file ~/.gnome2/backgrounds_advanced.xml

then I can see if it's a fault with the config or one with the cron job.

Also confirm, it deletes all files in the target directory, not just the old file as in the output log?

Changed in gnome-wallchanger:
assignee: nobody → Martin Owens (doctormo)
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Incomplete
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Antonio Roberts (hellocatfood) wrote :

Just loaded random-wallpaper again and this is the terminal output:

 > Using wallpaper /usr/share/backgrounds/Wallpapers/aca/n01.jpg
 ! Deleting Old File /usr/share/backgrounds/Wallpapers/aca/n26.jpg

I've attached screenshots of the items requested (I put both of them in one image as I can only add one attachment.

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