Wrong contents shown on external media

Bug #1222149 reported by RobinJ
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Files
Expired
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

This is what I did:
1. Take 2 removable media (SD cards in my case)
2. Format them both in Disk Utility (MBR, FAT), and give them the same label.
3. Put some music on one of the media, and safely remove it.
4. Pull it out, and insert the other medium which was formatted with the same settings and label.
5. Open it in Pantheon Files. Although the medium is still empty, it will show the contents of the other medium.
Temporary solution: killall pantheon-files

Another scenario where this happens:
1. Connect an external storage medium with some files on it.
2. Go to Disk Utility, unmount, and format the medium.
3. Mount the medium from Disk Utility.
4. Open the medium in Pantheon Files. Although the medium is empty, the files that were previously on it will still be shown.

Revision history for this message
Julián Unrrein (junrrein) wrote :

Sounds like the directory cache isn't cleared when a volume is unmounted.

Changed in pantheon-files:
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → isis-beta1
Cody Garver (codygarver)
no longer affects: elementaryos
Revision history for this message
Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten) wrote :

I could not reproduce this using revision rev 1495 of Files.

Cody Garver (codygarver)
Changed in pantheon-files:
status: New → Incomplete
milestone: isis-beta1 → isis-beta2
Cody Garver (codygarver)
Changed in pantheon-files:
milestone: freya-beta2 → none
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for Files because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in pantheon-files:
status: Incomplete → Expired
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