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From: The Natural Philosopher
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Odd behaviour?
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2024 18:02:26 +0000
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On 05/12/2024 16:57, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> "Carlos E.R." writes:
>> The GUI filemanager is just a filemanager, and follows filemanager
>> rules. It displays only ONE directory, not some desktop concoction
>> made of several structures and directories.
>
> Union filesystems are a thing, thought I don’t know of any reason to
> think one is involved here, and I’d (possibly naively) expected unlink
> calls to propagate through them to the appropriate underlying
> filesystem.
>
> I don’t have a definitive explanation for the behavior seen. Some
> guesswork:
>
> * If a file is sometimes visible and sometimes not that may reflect it
> being repeatedly deleted and re-created.
>
No. It was solid at all times and absent at all times from the
respective voews
> * If a file is visible in one view and not another than may reflect the
> views actually being different. e.g. user error about what directory
> they are looking at.
>
I hardly think ~/Desktop is confusing
All the other files on the desktop were in there
> * Filesystem corruption of some kind might explain any kind of weird
> behavior, though (at least when running ls) you might expect some kind
> of error message. The kernel log would be likely to contain
> diagnostics in this case.
>
I might have a look
> * A file that’s something to do with an attack may be deliberately
> hidden by the attack software, but perhaps in an inconsistent way
> (attackers screw up too).
>
According to a brief Google that is a Windows temporary file. It may be
something to do with the windows VM deleting it but the desktop
retaining memory of it. Bit if it is, it's in a weird place.
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