@Ebuzer: Downloads are already stored by default outside of the versioned directory, in the user's XDG downloads directory (typically $HOME/Downloads). The rationale for versioning the profile directory is that the storage format isn't backwards compatible, so downgrading a snap to a previous revision would potentially render a profile unusable.
@Roman: this is indeed something that, longer-term, should be addressed in snapd itself. This is merely a stop-gap measure to mitigate the problem until this happens. Note that ubuntu-bug hanging sounds unrelated to this particular issue. Can you elaborate on what you're trying to do, and how it hangs? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1864901 Title: [snap] suggestion: alert users when the snap has been refreshed while running Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: When the chromium snap is being automatically refreshed to a newer revision while the app is running, undefined behaviour might happen, as well as data loss (because the profile folder is versioned). This issue is regularly being reported (see e.g. the duplicates of bug #1616650). Jamie has an interesting suggestion to mitigate this situation, until refresh app awareness becomes default: « […] it would be possible for you to run something in the background that could occasionally see if the current symlink changed, and then alert to restart whenever refresh app awareness lands, it could be converted to see if something is pending, if so, prompt/alert to stop to have updates applied, or something simple idea is to nohup a script in a wrapper before invoking chromium proper iirc, firefox used to have UX built into it letting the user know it needed to be restarted, so there is some precedent for this sort of thing » To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1864901/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
