Pyrenamer - a new problem

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 01:59:39PM -0700, rikona wrote:
> Running 12.04, recently updated, but the last update seemed to have
> ruined pyrenamer. The pyrenamer GUI normally has two boxes, the left
> showing the directory tree, and the right showing files in the
> selected directory. The current problem is the left side box now
> covers the entire width, and one has no way to see what files are in
> the directory. Thus, you can't indicate which files you would like to
> have renamed - the app is essentially useless. 
> 
> I tried an apt-get purge and new install, but it didn't change
> anything. When I ran 'locate pyrenamer', there were 100 or more
> listings.

I don't know what the real problem here is, but I can point to one
confusion.  The "locate" database only updates occasionally (usually
nightly).  If you've only just purged and reinstalled something, then it
is not going to be up to date.  Other tools such as "find" (look for
files in part of the file system) or "dpkg -L" (list files shipped by a
package) are more likely to be helpful.

If you know when it last worked, you could look through
/var/log/dpkg.log* to find the packages that have been upgraded since
then.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]