Duplicate entries shown for documents on SD card (BQ E4.5)

[TenLeftFingers]

Proceedure:
Add some PDF documents to an SD card.

Actual:
Most of them show up twice in the Documents apllication.

Expected:
They should only show once.

Consideration: I thought maybe they were being duplicated on the filesystem somehow so I deleted an individual document from the SD card and both entries disaappeared in the app.

[Stefano Verzegnassi (verzegnassi-stefano)]

Hi,

Thank you for reporting this issue.

This is not the first time I hear/see this bug. It got my attention some days ago when I was having a look at the official Core Apps page[1] on the Ubuntu Developer website.

This issue hasn't been noticed when the code that handles SD card has been merged in the main development branch, so ATM I tend to agree with your consideration.
Requires further investigations though.

Anyway it may take some time before the issue is fixed, since I currently don't have a device with an SD card slot (I should get one next week) and everything works well on desktop (which is the only platform on which I can test it, ATM).

Since there's an official screenshot that attests the bug, I'm going to mark it as 'confirmed'.

[1] https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/community/core-apps/docviewer/

[TenLeftFingers (tenleftfingers)]

Thanks Stefano, and thanks for a great app. I'm loading 300+ page PDF
comics here and it still performs nicely on the BQ :)

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Stefano Verzegnassi <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thank you for reporting this issue.
>
> This is not the first time I hear/see this bug. It got my attention some
> days ago when I was having a look at the official Core Apps page[1] on
> the Ubuntu Developer website.
>
> This issue hasn't been noticed when the code that handles SD card has been
> merged in the main development branch, so ATM I tend to agree with your
> consideration.
> Requires further investigations though.
>
> Anyway it may take some time before the issue is fixed, since I
> currently don't have a device with an SD card slot (I should get one
> next week) and everything works well on desktop (which is the only
> platform on which I can test it, ATM).
>
> Since there's an official screenshot that attests the bug, I'm going to
> mark it as 'confirmed'.
>
> [1] https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/community/core-apps/docviewer/
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu-docviewer-app
> Status: New => Confirmed
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu-docviewer-app
> Importance: Undecided => Critical
>
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[Stefano Verzegnassi (verzegnassi-stefano)]

I had a look at the issue today and it's a very "dumb" bug. :)

I've run "df -T" command from the shell, in order to see the format of the SD card file system and discovered that it's formatted as VFAT, which is not case sensitive.

Link to the log of df: http://paste.ubuntu.com/11960806/
( the mount point of the SD card in the log is /media/phablet/E536-7B77 )

The model that generates the list of available documents checks if the "[SD_CARÐ]/Documents" path exists, then it checks for "[SD_CARÐ]/documents".
This was meant to work with desktops in mind, since in a Linux enviroment ext3/ext4 is used in most cases (this filesystem is case sensitive) but, removal medias, for compatibility reasons, use a FAT instead.

A fix for this issue does not require much time, and will be included in the next update of docviewer, which is scheduled for the next week.

Thank you for opening this report!

[TenLeftFingers (tenleftfingers)]

That's fantastic Stefano! Thank you for your work. :)

[Ubuntu Phone Apps Jenkins Bot (ubuntu-phone-apps-jenkins-bot)]

Fix committed into lp:ubuntu-docviewer-app at revision 180, scheduled for release in ubuntu-docviewer-app, milestone 2014-10-30