On Saturday 15 August 2009 16:33:40 Steven F. LeBrun wrote:One thing that does bother me about my ~/.local/share/applications-bad directory is that multiple desktop configuration files exist for the same applications. The worst case appears to be for Audacious; there are seven different desktop configuration files for it.Glad you're getting nearer. I'm curious about this ^^ statement. Can you look inside some of those files? Do they look as though they actually are all for Audacious, or whether something else went wrong, like a corrupted index, that might cause them to be mis-named? Are there many applications that have these duplicated file? And are they applications that were in use (or being launched) at the time of corruption? Anne
grep -nH -e Audacious *.*
alacarte-made-37.desktop:9:Name=Audacious
alacarte-made-37.desktop:10:Name[en_US]=Audacious
fedora-audacious.desktop:12:Name=Audacious
fedora-audacious-plugins.desktop:10:Name=Audacious
livna-audacious-aac.desktop:10:Name=Audacious
livna-audacious-alac.desktop:10:Name=Audacious
livna-audacious-mp3.desktop:10:Name=Audacious
livna-audacious-wma.desktop:10:Name=Audacious
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