Something is wrong with dolphin which prevents me from copy/cut pasting files. It’s been like that for a year now. I was hoping some update will eventually fix it but that didn’t happen. I get “paste clipboard contents…” instead of “paste” option in my context menu. Maybe it’s my config so I was hoping to remove dolphin completely and starting fresh.
After I run sudo dnf remove dolphin what other files do I need to remove to completely purge dolphin so I can start new?
rm .local/share/dolphin .config/dolphinrc .cache/dolphin is not enough because it still leaves some config files somewhere. I know this because after I reinstall dolphin it still ends up remembering things about me like I had my terminal window open in split.
Use Dolphin’s search, Kfind or other seach tool and see what you have.
I will guess that ~./local/state/dolphinstaterc may be the one you are looking for. There could be others as well.
# brute force troubleshooting...
mv ~/.config ~/.configBORKED
# logout and log back in again to force plasma to recreate the folder with default settings
dolphin --split ~/.config ~/.configBORKED
# copy back half of the BORKED folder contents at a time and relog to see if issue returns
# if it does, then delete the folder again, relog, and only copy half of that previous half
# repeat until the culprit is found, then finally, copy back everything BUT that culprit bit
