Comments on: Don’t Let GNOME’s Text Editor Leave Hidden Files

By: frann

frann — Sat, 22 May 2010 15:58:18 +0000

I definitely don’t want to lose backup files!

There used to be an option in gedit to see hidden files, also graphics files (which aren’t shown on the spurious grounds that you can’t edit them – doesn’t mean you don’t want to know they are there/rename them/copy the filename/whatever without having to open nautilus).

It seems to have gone. In fact, lucid seems to be deliberately downgraded like this in a lot of areas. It’s extremely annoying.

By: digglesworth

digglesworth — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:08:30 +0000

This is exactly the solution I was thinking of. The best would be to have backups go to a designated directory.

By: Ahmed Azhad

Ahmed Azhad — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:56:20 +0000

To find the backup files created by gedit before turning off the option, type:

find / -name *~ 2>/dev/null

By: grodgers

grodgers — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:15:37 +0000

Its a very useful feature, but very annoying – especially when FTPing hundreds of HTML files.

Does anyone know of a hack to make the backup files go to another directory other than the current working directory where the docs are?

Cheers.

By: Fauzi

Fauzi — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:56:11 +0000

Is there any way for us to find the hidden files created by gedit and delete them?

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:44:24 +0000

Jonas:
There is a setting in gconf-editor to show backup files, but it doesn’t work on my system:
/desktop/gnome/file_views/show_backup_files

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By: Andrew Conkling

Andrew Conkling — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:13:25 +0000

I filed a bug on this, as I see no reason not to just hide the files via the “normal” dot-file convention: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438763

But yeah, I agree with Jonas: these backup files can be useful, so turning them off is not ideal.

By: Peterix

Peterix — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:00:47 +0000

It would be great if this could be used for versioning.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:11:59 +0000

Wrong solution IMO. It would be better if Gnome didn’t hide the backup-files instead of disabling a sometimes VERY handy feature.

I assume you can turn off that “Do not show backup-files” somewhere?