File properties: location of Resume.pdf is wrong

[Christopher Yeleighton]

The location of each file on your computer is given by a path to the directory where it can be found. The location for a file identified as /home/jim/Resume.pdf would be a directory identified as /home/jim. Moreover, the absolute path to /usr/lib64/libc.a is /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.a but the location is still shown as /usr/lib64.

It is possible, although rather unusual, that Jim’s resume will be in location /home/jim/Resume.pdf; it would have to be in a directory named Resume.pdf.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubuntu-docs 16.04.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-127.153-generic 4.4.128
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-127-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.18
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Jun 7 15:58:35 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-02-05 (1217 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-docs
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2018-06-06 (0 days ago)

[Doug Smythies (dsmythies)]

It is not clear to me what version you are quoting, although partly 14.04, while running 16.04
References:
https://help.ubuntu.com/16.04/ubuntu-help/nautilus-file-properties-basic.html
Source: nautilus-file-properties-basic.page

Anyway, setting this to invalid.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Thanks for your report!

On 2018-06-07 16:15, Christopher Yeleighton wrote:
> The location of each file on your computer is given by a path to the
> directory where it can be found. The location for a file identified
> as /home/jim/Resume.pdf would be a directory identified as
> /home/jim.

The "Files properties" page was changed in Ubuntu 17.10, so what previously was called "Location" is now called "Parent Folder".

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-user-docs/commit/f32f661a

That makes more sense, doesn't it?

At the same time I see that the label in Files is still "Location"...

> Moreover, the absolute path to /usr/lib64/libc.a is /usr/lib/x86_64
> -linux-gnu/libc.a but the location is still shown as /usr/lib64.

That's true if you navigate via the symlink. It's not obviously wrong, is it? It's one of two ways to find the file.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Oops.. @Doug, I didn't see your comment before posting.

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