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schachgeek (schachgeek) wrote : Re: [Bug 1656953] Re: fslint 2.44-2 can't select via wildcard or other criteria and won't always delete selected items

Perhaps related, but not a duplicate. Select by wildcard doesn't work at
all.

On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 2:39 AM, Vlad Orlov <email address hidden>
wrote:

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1529700 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1529700
>
> ** Project changed: linuxmint => fslint (Ubuntu)
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1529700
> fslint-gui duplicates select - within groups - select all but
> newest/oldest results in error
>
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> Title:
> fslint 2.44-2 can't select via wildcard or other criteria and won't
> always delete selected items
>
> Status in fslint package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Running Mint 18.1 Cinnamon 64bit on a HP p6710f configured as follows:
> Atholn II X64 640 Quad Core 3Ghz
> 16gb RAM
> 1TB Crucial MX3000 grub, mint, home.
> 500gb Crucial MX200 Windows 10
> 2TB Western Digital spinner, extra storage and swap.
> Nvidia GT730
> Two Inateck pci-e usb 3.0 expansion cards
> Realtek 8168E pci-e Gigabit (my motherboard's Realtek nic works fine but
> it's just a 10/100).
> Motherboard: N-Alvorix-RS880-uatx by Foxconn. AMD 785G Chipset, SATA II.
>
> With FSlint-gui 2.44-2 that is in the repos, FSlint will scan for
> duplicates and find them just fine however I cannot select files to
> delete using the wildcard criteria, nor "all but oldest" nor "all but
> newest. If you try, the gui just stares at you.
>
> The only way to select files is "all but first." But, once you select
> them and click on "delete" sometimes they will delete. Other times,
> the gui just stares at you again for an extended period of time and
> does nothing. I've interrupted this process several times by closing
> out fslint and no harm was done - nothing selected had been deleted.
>
> I uninstalled 2.44-2 and installed 2.45 from github. Same problem.
>
> I then installed 2.42 from a Debian repo. With 2.42 I can select
> within groups, but still cannot select using wildcard. I believe this
> to be a Mint issue, rather than an FSlint issue because version 2.42
> worked perfectly fine on Mint 17-17.3.
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