Strange one this, at least it's the first I've seen anything like it.

Whenever I login an old ("old" as in previously deleted) directory is
recreated. I've narrowed this down to KDE in that it only happens when I
start KDE. I thought it might be something to do with strigi at first so I
deleted the data store but it still happens. Anyone got any ideas?

Geoff

Does it happen to all files/directories or some specific ones?

Which directories / files are being recreated in particular?

Maybe its an user path defined in systemsettings?

4.5 >> Systemsettings > Account Details > Paths
4.4 >> Systemsettings > About Me (if i remember right...)

Hans wrote:Does it happen to all files/directories or some specific ones?

bcooksley wrote:Which directories / files are being recreated in particular?

It's a particular directory. The directory which is created contains another directory both of which contain no files. They were created by ktorrent. When ktorrent finishes the download it moves the downloaded files to a specific location which is controlled by a setting in the ktorrent configuration. I specifically do not have ktorrent running at the moment to make sure that it's not doing something silly.

I have also recursively grepped ~/.kde for the directory name, I found a couple of binary files in ~/.kde/cache-<pcname>/http so I deleted these but I still have the problem.

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Geoff

karoshi wrote:Maybe its an user path defined in systemsettings?

4.5 >> Systemsettings > Account Details > Paths
4.4 >> Systemsettings > About Me (if i remember right...)

Good idea but alas this is not the problem.

Cheers!
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Geoff

Make sure ktorrent isn't actually running.

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ps aux | grep ktorrent

bcooksley wrote:Make sure ktorrent isn't actually running.

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ps aux | grep ktorrent

Did that and no ktorrent process is running. Of course that doesn't mean one wasn't kicked off at login time and has subsequently died. To test this I deleted the mutant ninja zombie directories and started up ktorrent. The directories were not recreated so I don't think it's anything to do with ktorrent.

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Geoff

The culprit was kget. I had used kget to download a file into the re-appearing directory. Even though kget had finished the download it seemed to want to re-create the directory. Simply removing the (completed) entry from kget has cured the problem.

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Geoff