Desktop keeps showing files that are no longer there

[teo1978]

Hours after downloading a few pdf files with Chrome into the Desktop and being done with them, I went to delete them.
I was surprised to find a file called something.pdf.chdownload. These are the temporary files that Chrome creates while downloading the files, then it renames them to their final filename without the .chrdownload suffix when they are complete. All of the files had been downloaded completely and succesfully (I had actually opened all of them) so this file shouldn't exist.

And indeed, when I went to download it, I got an error "Cannot move <filename> to trash. Delete it permanently?" (this is actually stupid in the first place: the reason why I'm getting this error, it turns out, is that the file does not exist, so it makes no sense to give me the option to permanently delete it, which will fail for the exact same reason).
So I chose "delete", and got an error again, that the file could not be deleted. I retried several times and finally looked at "details" and found out that the source of the error was "no such file or directory".

So, the file was not there.

So why the fuck was it being shown on the desktop if it was no longer there? I can assume it might happen some rare times (it's a bug anyway) that you for some reason "miss" when a file ceases existing, and hence it is still falsely visible on the desktop. But there should come a point where Nautilus "realises" the file no longer exists and stops showing it. In other words, the contents of the desktop should be "refreshed" from time to time or on certain events. And trying to delete a file, triggering an error that says that the file doesn't fucking exist, should be such a case where you refresh the information and stop showing a file that doesn't exist.

It's pathetic that you keep showing it forever until I kill and restart nautilus or fucking reboot.

I'm sick of reporting such idiotic bugs on Nautilus. Ubuntu, for fuck's sake, switch to some better, decently maintained file manager. Nautilus is CRAP.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.18.4.is.3.14.3-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-119.143-generic 4.4.114
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-119-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.16
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Apr 22 18:04:34 2018
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'sidebar-width' b'190'
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'1369x817+258+98'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'use-tree-view' b'true'
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'date_modified', 'date_accessed', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'mime_type', 'where']"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-11 (1653 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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I'm not able to reproduce this bug on Files 3.26.3-0ubuntu4 on Ubuntu 18.04 (at least, when downloading an image from Facebook to Desktop from Chromium 65.0.3325.181 (277) [snap]) so I'm assuming this is Fix Released, if you can reproduce this bug on Ubuntu 18.04 then please change this to New.

It's not GNOME's responsibility to keep old versions of Files working on older (but supported) versions of Ubuntu, that is Ubuntu's responsibility, so this bug does not reflect on the alleged poor maintenance of Files. However if you think that the default file manager should not be GNOME Files then start a topic at https://community.ubuntu.com/c/desktop , other appropriate places would be #ubuntu-desktop on Freenode or the Ubuntu Desktop mailing list. You would need to give detailed reasoning why it should be abandoned though and clear evidence that it's not being well maintained, I've been forwarding bugs to the Files devs and they've actually been rather responsive (if I'm patient enough) so I think you would be hard-pressed to show that it's actually unmaintained despite all appearances! ;)

A Bug Control member should nominate this bug for Xenial if they think that it should be fixed by Ubuntu in that.

[teo1978 (teo8976)]

> I'm not able to reproduce this bug [...] so I'm assuming this is Fix Released

You know the saying "'ass-u-me' makes an *** out of u and me..."

There has never been any way to SYSTEMATICALLY reproduce the bug, I have just observed it RANDOMLY from time to time, so, you being unable to reproduce it doesn't mean it's fixed. It could be, but that's not something you can just assume.