Bug 9782 - (int-118590) File manager shows 'cities' folder
(int-118590)
: File manager shows 'cities' folder
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: Map
General
: 5.0/(3.2010.02-8)
: N900 Maemo
: Unspecified normal (vote)
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Assigned To: unassigned
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Reported: 2010-03-31 12:58 UTC by Łukasz Derkacz
Modified: 2010-03-31 15:58 UTC (History)
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Description Łukasz Derkacz (reporter) 2010-03-31 12:58:17 UTC
SOFTWARE VERSION:
(Settings > General > About product)

EXACT STEPS LEADING TO PROBLEM: 
(Explain in detail what you do (e.g. tap on OK) and what you see (e.g. message
Connection Failed appears))
1. Open File Manager

EXPECTED OUTCOME:
The 'cities' folder should be hidden from the user.
- It's content has a complicated structure so accessing it via n900 file
manager is unreasonable.
- This folder is updated via Ovi maps itself, or by more experienced user via
USB connection, there's no documentation about this folder in the instruction.
- File manager has no portrait mode, and the folder list is quite short,
'removing' one folder would allow a tiny faster access to other folders which
are more important for the user (less scrolling).
- MyDocs view has personalized directories (Images, Camera etc..) so it could
also keep 'cities' as a hidden directory, however still accessible by Ovi Maps
and USB connection

ACTUAL OUTCOME:
The Ovi 'cities' folder is visible in the MyDocs folder list which is
unreasonable.

REPRODUCIBILITY:
(always, less than 1/10, 5/10, 9/10)
10/10
EXTRA SOFTWARE INSTALLED:

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.2
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.342.7 Safari/533.2
Comment 1 Andre Klapper maemo.org 2010-03-31 15:16:42 UTC
While I personally agree with this, Nokia "decided not to implement this. This
might cause additional problems and risks, and user might also want to remove
the maps content in order to free memory."
Comment 2 Łukasz Derkacz (reporter) 2010-03-31 15:44:29 UTC
Is there any documentation how 'advanced' user can do this on his own device?
That would be enough as a partial solution. 

Nokia's 2nd argument regarding freeing space is still unreasonable, because the
user can't delete a specified region of the maps (because of the complicated
structure of the directory). It will be easier for the user to remove other
easily acessible data eg. movies which take the same amount of space (avg. one
coutry ~500MB).
Comment 3 Andre Klapper maemo.org 2010-03-31 15:51:07 UTC
I highly assume that the folder name is hardcoded in the Maps code so I don't
think there is a solution. :-(
Comment 4 Łukasz Derkacz (reporter) 2010-03-31 15:58:37 UTC
Well, I meant if it's possible to do in the filesystem. Like it's done with
.video and such directories which are visible as Videos etc. However .videos
are treated by default as hidden, maybe there's possibility to edit come
configuration file to not show 'cities' directory in the File Manager.