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Subject: Re: Odd behaviour?
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On 12/4/24 12:23, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 03/12/2024 22:24, Andy Burns wrote:
>> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>
>>> What I find puzzling is how it appears in the GUI but isn't on the 
>>> actual machine file system
>>
>> funky characters in filename?
>>
>> ls -la | cat -v
> 
> Nope. Still no sign
> 
> I think some part of the GUI environment builds a cache, and its in 
> that, but not in the real world so to speak
> 

Yes, that it what I think I have seen in Gnome Desktop and the Gnome 
Files App (file explorer) vs bash ls. I think I have seen behaviour that 
could only be explained by caching. I tested yesterday, but some kind of 
observer type behaviour was keeping everything perfectly and promptly 
synced.