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I'm creating shortcuts for Syncthing, when I noticed this: Is there supposed to be a "~" after the folder name?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There's a convention to append a tilde to files/folders that are backups, so presumably some app at some point made a copy of /usr/local/share/applications, and then the original one got deleted?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

That's odd. I'll delete it since it's empty and create a new one called just "applications". I tried having both yesterday, but it didn't work even though I put the Syncthing .desktop files inside and restarted my PC.