From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020513 Description of problem: In the preferences menu, selecting one of the three user level preferences does the opposite of what it is supposed to do. If I understand the nautilus users manual correctly, advanced is supposed to show more information and beginner is supposed to show less. On my stock RH 7.3, just the opposite happens. With user level set to advanced, nautilus does not show me all of the contents of a directory and it does not show any details about what it does show. With user level set to beginner, I see all of the contents of the directory and details such as number of items in the subdirectories . In the first case (advanced) , I have directories that I own with the same permissions. Some it shows and some it doesn't. It does show all of them in the tree view though. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Add two users to the group nobody. Create a public directory somewhere like this: (note the sticky bit) drwxrwsrwx 7 root nobody 4096 Jul 20 17:38 shared 2. Put a link to the above directrory in the user's home directories and have the users put some files and folders in it. You should now have files and folders owned by the one or more of the users and by group nobody. 3. Have the user open up nautilus and double click the link to the shared direcory. Actual Results: Depending on the user level selected, some of the directories do not show up in the main panel, but do show up in the tree view. Furthermore, it seems that the wrong amount of detail is displayed for what is shown based on the user level selected. Expected Results: I would expect ALL contents to be shown with a greater level of detail when advanced is selected. I would expect less detail when beginner is selected, and I would expect to see all folders that I own instead of just one of them. Additional info: When I use nautilus to view /export/shared with a user level of advanced, all I see is the qvf directory and the fixfile.sh file. [dchimelr@aquila export]$ ls -la /export total 32 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jul 3 13:53 . drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Jul 20 15:01 .. drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 6 13:29 home drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Jul 1 10:02 lost+found drwxrwsrwx 7 root nobody 4096 Jul 20 17:38 shared [dchimelr@aquila export]$ ls -la /export/shared total 32 drwxrwsrwx 7 root nobody 4096 Jul 20 17:38 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jul 3 13:53 .. drwxrwsrwx 3 root nobody 4096 Jul 20 17:38 files -rw-r--r-- 1 root nobody 157 Jul 3 14:47 fixfile.sh drwxrwsrwx 2 suzanne nobody 4096 Jul 20 11:33 gage drwxrwsrwx 2 suzanne nobody 4096 Jul 20 13:01 otherbooks drwxrwsr-x 2 dchimelr nobody 4096 Jul 6 12:12 ps drwxrwsr-x 8 dchimelr nobody 4096 Jul 19 16:27 qvf
The way it works is: - user levels only affect preferences - if a pref is not available in a user level, you always get the default setting for the pref for that user level - if a pref is available you get whatever you've configured it to This looks like just a bug (not showing files owned by other users) which is most likely a side effect of some difference in some particular pref. I'd guess the user level stuff is a wild goose chase. Try just fooling with prefs while you're "advanced" and see if you can get the missing files to appear.
Sorry for the long delay, I was on vacation :) You are correct, it seems that if you have the "Show count of items in folders" option turned off, then you don't see all of the files and/or directories that you should. Annoying, because that option slows things down and causes the list view to flicker while it reads all of the directories. Thanks for the help!