Caja (File Manager) cannot use and access, also eats up CPU
I've just recently been having a serious issue with my Trisquel 10 on my Laptop. It had always served me true until today, but after logging in at the start now my file manager is completely messed up and I can't even access my own files. The files, apps and shortcuts on my Desktop page isn't even showing while my CPU is going haywire; even after Killing the Process of Caja but it doesn't help fix the issue.
That is until a while later before everything calms down, but it takes it sweet time to take things back to normal.
I don't know why it's happening but it is.
This isn't much to go off of but is there a way to find the root of this problem and possibly resolve it.
If it helps, the only changes I've made besides the wallpaper and desktop theme would be the changes I've made to my Desktop icons although the resolutions for those images are a lot more higher than a typical icon should be.
Any advice or directions could be of great help and would be very much well appreciated.
Can you purge caja from the tty and then re-install it?
1. Before logging into the desktop, hit ctrl-alt-F1 to go to a tty terminal, and sign in
2. sudo apt purge caja
3. sudo apt install caja
4. reboot, try signing in now, see if it was some corrupted caja config file that was corrected by reinstalling?
Note - this could be a bad idea if purging caja takes away the entire mate desktop with it. Look at the output of the 'purge caja' command before agreeing to it - if apt says it's going to delete mate-desktop and a whole bunch of other stuff, don't do it, hit "n" or ctrl-c to cancel.
What if you undo your recent changes to the icons to see if that makes a difference?
I actually just changed the resolution of those icons to 128 x 128 (roughly) and the issue has seemed to have gone away.
The only issue now is that the Encrypted Wifi icon looks like this whenever I use ovpn. Don't know what's going on there, but and least there's no performance issues.
An icon with the expected name is probably missing in your icon folder: the proper icon may be present, but with a different name, or the icon itself may be missing.
I just looked it up and found them in their belonging folder. The files and names are all there but the images themselves cannot be seen as if there not there at all.
I suppose I could take the images of the Encrypted lock and wifi symbols that are available, merge them as a .SVG then paste over the previous ones?
Is it the proper resolution? Panel icons are usually smaller than 128x128.
It's okay, I found that other desktop themes uses those same icons that are meant to be in the same themes that I am currently using. So I just simply copied those icons to overwrite the files that weren't working and volla, the problem is solved.
All is good. Thank you for your time everyone
> the resolutions for those images are a lot more higher than a typical icon should be.
It seems that you have been inviting with the Devil in your icons. I do subscribe to jxself's suggestion above. See also: https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/caja-100-cpu-usage/23364/2.