I made soft links to several files: Example: ln -s /home/ldi/bzr/bash/bobSwatch The link to a 269-byte file is shown correctly as a soft link in both the first column icon and the file properties. The link to a 52-byte file is shown incorrectly as an ordinary file in both the first column icon and the file properties. But the file is a soft link: 2012-08-22 10:34:26 /home/ldi/bin $ ls -l bobSwatch lrwxrwxrwx 1 bob02 users 28 Aug 22 10:34 bobSwatch -> /home/ldi/bzr/bash/bobSwatch 2012-08-22 10:45:02 /home/ldi/bin $ This repeats 100% every time. I'm running: openSUSE 12.1 Kernel Linux 3.1.10-1.16-desktop XFCE desktop environment
On further use, I see that this is yet another of many cases where Thunar fails to notice changes to the file system. Eventually, Thunar notices the change and correctly shows the files as soft links. (I was moving the file and then making a soft link in the file's old directory.) When Thunar notices changes is unpredictable. This makes Thunar very untrustworthy and annoying. Can't you please make the information shown by Thunar more reliable.
*** Bug 10162 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Should be fixed in 1.6.5.
Confirmed, 1.6.5 fixed symlinks. Thanks!