Upgrading From a Beta Version of Nautilus

Restoring Custom Settings

If you installed Nautilus Preview Release 1, 2, or 3, you will lose some of your custom settings when you upgrade to Nautilus 1.0.x. One symptom of this problem is that your icons will look like text files and your desktop may not be correctly drawn.

The preview release versions of Nautilus created XML files (links and metafiles containing your customization information) with incorrect capitalization. Because of this error, your Nautilus links may now appear as plain text files beginning with "?xml," and customizations such as custom icons, captions, and backgrounds may be lost.

To restore a normal appearance, open a terminal window and run this command:

nautilus-xml-migrate directory

This command searches the directory you specify (or the current directory if you don't specify one) and all subdirectories for files with a first line beginning with "?xml" and a second line beginning with "NAUTILUS." If any such files are found, their XML tags will be corrected to be lower case instead of upper case.

After the command has been executed, return to Nautilus and click the Refresh button to see the corrected window.

Problems Loading Web Pages

If you installed Nautilus Preview Release 1 or 2, and you are having problems loading Web pages, you may need to delete two directories. Follow these steps:

1. Shut down Nautilus and the gconfd utility. To do this, open a terminal window and enter the following commands:

nautilus --quit nautilus-clean.sh -x

2. Remove the following two directories:

~/.gconf ~/.gconfd

3. Restart Nautilus.