On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:05:44 +0100 Neil Bird neil@fnxweb.com wrote:
A colleague here has had a fresh install of Fedora 9 for a while, and the only remaining issue he has is that, after being logged in for a while, he starts getting a an ever increasing slew of extra icons on his desktop that don't match devices or actual files in ~/Desktop.
Now, these aren't *totally* fictitious; it appears to be something to do with a '.snapshot' directory (or it's updates) that our network filer maintains on our NFS-shared home directories (containing hourly.0, .1, etc., nightly.0, etc.). I don't believe there's anything special about this directory.
Mostly, it seems that the icons that appear seem to be dirs. and files in in them (albeit skipping the 'hourly.0' level) such that the rogue icons appear to be from the home directory.
We're not quite sure what causes this; it may be the backup process occurring (once every few hours). He *can* force a fictional '.snapshot' to appear on the desktop by inserting a USB stick. When the stick's removed, .snapshot stays when the USB icon goes.
The desktop shows the stuff in the "Desktop/" directory by default. If it contains hourly or daily snapshot directories so will the users desktop...
Alan