Pyrenamer - a new problem

[rikona]

Hello Colin,

Saturday, March 22, 2014, 3:01:37 AM, Colin wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 02:34:32PM -0700, rikona wrote:
>> Friday, March 21, 2014, 5:46:42 AM, Colin wrote:
>> > 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.
>> 
>> I'm familiar with that. If I want a current view of the system, I
>> run updatedb before I run locate.

> Fair enough.

>> Again, I'm trying to find the dates associated with all the files
>> produced by locate - without having to do the hundred or so
>> individually by hand, since they are spread out all over the computer.

>   locate -0 ... | xargs -0 ls -l

Now THAT is a useful and instructive [to me] command. I saw the -0
option in man locate but didn't understand it. Xargs is a potentially
powerful command, now that I know a tiny bit about it. It showed me
that there was only one potentially useful file, out of the 200+ shown
by locate, that was written when the program exited. It was
.gconf/apps/pyrenamer/%gconf.xml and looks like it has info that might
be related to the layout. If I resize the window and exit the program,
some of those parameters change. One item, called pane position, does
not change, but manually editing this number does not seem to make any
visual difference when the program runs. Interestingly, when the
program is fired up, a smaller window appears in a brief flash, and
very quickly changes to the final window which persists in having the
problem. Editing this file does not seem to solve the problem. 

One possibility is that the program is writing a file that does not
have "pyrenamer" in the filename, and thus does not show up with
locate. Would it be practical to run a command [which I don't know] to
list the name and date of any files that were written in the last,
say, five minutes? This might help to show some other file that is
containing configuration information. But, would this produce a large
number of files because too many things were going on in the last five
minutes? 

In rummaging around on the net, I note that the 12.04 version has been
removed from the PPA. Also, PyGObject/GTK+3 has apparently replaced
PyGTK/GTK+2. Could this mean that some update has produced an
incompatibility with the program? The current program is from 2010 and
it does not seem as though a major update is forthcoming. Could this
possibly be a dead-end for the program? 

Thanks for the help,

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 rikona