Pyrenamer - a new problem

[rikona]

Hello Nils,

Friday, March 21, 2014, 3:20:57 PM, Nils wrote:

> 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. 

> As usual with GUI applications reinstalling them doesn't help.

Hmmm... not good news... :-)

> Such applications create configuration files / directories in the
> user's home directory and the installer may not touch these files.

That was my thinking, but I was not sure.

> For KDE applications you can usually find the config files in
> "$HOME/.kde/share/config/" and for many other applications the
> configuration is in "$HOME/.config".

It's not a KDE pgm so nothing is there [I have a few KDE apps but not
running KDE]. Nothing in "$HOME/.config".

> In your case the configuration is probably in "$HOME/.pyrenamer/"
> because that directory is created if you run pyrenamer the first
> time. 

I do have that, backed it up, cleared it out, makes no difference. :-(
locate gives me a LOT [100+] of files all over the place with
pyrenamer in the file name. Do python pgms have a semi-standard place
to write configs as does KDE? It's supposedly written in PyGTK - a
different animal from plain python? - needs separate update? Would
plain GTK updates screw this up?

Thanks,

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 rikona