Icons of files copied from another volume appear on desktop even if not copied there

[dsuden]

I've encountered this for a number of years. I'll be copying a big folder of files from another drive volume over to a volume I'm booted to. Even though I'm not copying the files to the desktop, icons representing those files appear on the desktop. After restarting Tracker, the icons disappear. I saw that again today with a very current Haiku PM build (47930).

[waddlesplash]

I strongly suspect that this is another symptom of the underlying bug in #11122 (as that one has duplicate, unclickable entries appear as well), and as that crashes Tracker and is 100% reproducible I think we should investigate that first.

[Giova84]

I also see this behaviour while I install packages which make links on the Desktop. Restarting the Tracker solve the issue.

[ttcoder]

Not impacted but subbing to show moral support to Dane :-].. Apparently this is the last important killjoy that prevents him from fully enjoying haiku-PM..

While waiting for someone to tackle this, next time this happens Dane could...

• right-click the "ghost" icon and Get-Info
• open a Terminal, type ll (maybe also listattr) and drag the ghost icon to it, to see what kind of notion Tracker has of that ghost file, and where Tracker believes it is located.
• take a screenshot composite of the above and post it here.

[waddlesplash]

@ttcoder: you can't right-click the ghosts, or highlight them, or "llsattr" them (they aren't there). #11122 probably describes a behavior similar enough that creates the ghosts but also inflicts a crash, so it's probably easier to debug.

[leavengood]

I will see if I can reproduce this by setting up another volume and copying files around. If anyone has other feedback or suggestions let me know.