PCmanfm-qt unable to move files to folder

Lubuntu Support
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Hi,

Apologies for the use of strace. Am not that familiar with these commands.

Regarding the log I posted, I first tried to move, that didn’t work. Then tried to copy, this did work.

Thanks very much for your annotations. This helped a lot to grab what is going on.

I don’t know if it is worth digging further. Many thanks for your help. Much appreciated.

I noticed yesterday that when I use the dual pane mode, I can move files to a folder, no problem. This can be a good workaround.

Many thanks.

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You may want to reinstall pcmanfm-qt and libfm-qt. Perhaps the whole thing. Your install is certainly not behaving correctly.

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Ok I spent a while trying to figure out how to ask this question of your system, but could you give me the contents of /var/log/installer/casper-md5check.json?

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This is all I have in the /var/log/installer folder:
erome@K-39:~$ ls -la /var/log/installer/
total 1160
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 12 2020
drwxrwxr-x 12 root syslog 4096 Jan 26 11:03 …
-rw------- 1 root root 1650 Jun 12 2020 casper.log
-rw------- 1 root root 591983 Jun 12 2020 debug
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 392536 Jun 12 2020 initial-status.gz
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 58 Jun 12 2020 media-info
-rw------- 1 root root 183727 Jun 12 2020 syslog

In case you wanted the casper.log, it’s there
https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/Cp9P6htFyF/

There are some news. I uninstalled/ reinstalled libfm-qt and pcmanfm-qt as you suggested.

When I open the file manager for the first time, I still cannot move files ( I have this little red icon that pops up). Then if I open/ close the destination folder, all is fine.

I also created a new user. When logged with this new user, I have no issue.

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Bummer. I thought they had instituted the change I was looking for in 20.04.

Maybe another thing to do is this:

  1. Copy your initial user’s $HOME/.config/pcmanfm-qt/lxqt/settings.conf somewhere else or rename it (unless you don’t care about it)
  2. Copy your new user’s settings over to your home
  3. Make sure to chown the file to you
  4. Kill any running pcmanfm-qt processes
  5. Re-run pcmanfm-qt with /usr/bin/pcmanfm-qt --desktop --profile=lxqt
  6. Try your file thing again

Failing that, compare groups the two users are in.

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Has this issue been resolved?