Re: How to erase metadata in Evince?

[Jose Aliste <jose aliste gmail com>]

Hey Juanjo, That helps a lot! Thanks


PS: Of course, the bug I was hitting is already fixed by now in master.


On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Juanjo Marin <juanjomarin96 yahoo es> wrote:
> El jue, 03-12-2009 a las 19:02 +0100, Jose Aliste escribió:
>> Hi List,
>>
>> How can I erase the evince metadata associated to a file?
>>
>> I am hitting an ugly bug that makes evince crash when stressing the
>> handle bar controlling the size of the Sidebar. Since the bug is size
>> related (and this is saved in metadata, I guess) the next time I try
>> to open the file I used to crashed evince, then evince will crash
>> again, and so this file can not be seen anymore with evince.
>
> Hi Jose,
>
> Since August or so Evince uses the gvfs metadata framework. I don't know
> too much about it -the gvfs metadata software for Evince doesn't work on
> my system-, but I think you can manage the metadata info with the family
> of gvfs command (on ubuntu/Debian this commands are installed with the
> gvfs-bin package)
>
> This link have some info about the use of metadata on Nautilus [1], it
> can give you some clues about this stuff.
>
>
> [1] http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2009/06/24/data-about-data/
>
> I hope this helps you from my ignorance :),
>
>   -- Juanjo Marín
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