 just a quick video to demonstrate a particularly annoying bug that's been driving me mad all day in OpenShot. OpenShot I presume anyone watching knows is an open source video editing platform it's pretty basic it's good for basic tasks which is all I'm doing today but it's one of the best known ones on Ubuntu Linux. I've seen people talk about work around for this bugs on Windows not on Ubuntu so I'm just gonna quickly demonstrate what you need to do firstly this is a bug we're talking about from if I just call up the github page here there's been some it's been closed again and this has happened about three times this is on someone using Windows so it's not quite the same. OpenShot is not an info loop if you actually provide the location of the missing file it will reconnect not only all instances that file in Linux at least this is not true because I've tried to create even a replicas mp4 renamed a different mp4 and it just does it gets stuck in the loop let's just let me just create the loop firstly so let's open up OpenBox I just nested a video and a PNG file in a folder called to on the desktop so let's just let's just do the PNG to unless you both just drop these into a project right PNG video just put them back to back little fade in over here now let's save a project on the desktop and let's call this test project now this the project is relying upon these two files to be here in two so let's just throw things off a bit by creating a folder called three and let's nest these guys into that folder called three so now when we open up OpenShot let's open up the project we just created on the desktop and it won't like it it'll say there's a missing file right test video mp4 cannot be found now this is a demo account on my desktop it's not my account and I'm not getting the infinite loop bug on my desktop I've been in this bug at least three times today I don't know what the difference is all they will say is on the real OpenShot and I've been editing a lot of videos all day and maybe it's something maybe that makes a technical difference so this is what it looks like it'll say as you can expect this file is not found the next button will ask where is that file and I ran into the problem in which I had deleted the original files my workflow is I'm taking a original video editing is creating a PNG transition start and start and end exporting that uploading that to YouTube and as soon as I export the post-production clip I'm deleting the raw file so it doesn't find it and you say you just click away and you go to this and it says I can't find it and it goes to this and it says I can't find it and so on and so forth this is a this is what the loop looks like you will get stuck in this loop when you're stuck in the loop so much so that you can't even when you open a fresh instance of OpenShot you're not able to get past this cycle of we just did a project we're looking for the file the file doesn't exist as I said you can create a video and MP4 with the same file and it just will not match so what you need to do firstly is you can do this in task manager I'm just going to I'm gonna do this on the command line so firstly kill OpenShot and it's OpenShot QT I'm on my demo account so I need to give it the pseudo password and so that's fine now here's what you need to do next so basically if you do you know oops if you do like this I haven't tried to purge if you do a simple auto-remove on OpenShot QT and reinstall you will still be in the loop so you that will not work what you need to do instead is navigate to your the root of your user folder now that's all you need to do it's here it's it's not in you know a lot of times I find stuff in doc and fig you've got a lot of stuff here for some program store their settings are you can see it's a bit hard to make out with the let me just put the background wise and the foreground black you can see Google Chrome store some files here Libre Office has some stuff here so I often assume system files are going to be nested under config in this case it's actually in root so you need to do ls minus a to show up the hidden files and this is your man OpenShot QT dot OpenShot underscore QT that's the folder where OpenShot is storing its goodies oops CD dot I had a slash there for no reason so go into it I'm not sure exactly what needs to be kept what needs to be deleted so what I have done basically is simply done a wild card just getting everything and getting all the subfolders as well do like that just quickly verify that you have gobbled up everything except for the lock file that's fine and then when you go back into OpenShot all will be well you'll get this it'll it'll think that it's the first time that the application's been launched I've had to do go through this process three times today on my actual you know active OpenShot clearly it's not good but I use OpenShot approximately one once every perhaps three months so it's not really the end of the world that's how it works basically and just to recap quickly you go to the user home folder if you're using file file manager I'm in LXT here control H will call up all the hidden directories you can't usually see and just nuke everything within OpenShot QT or do that on the command line and by the time you reboot you will be able to access the program as usual and work on your videos hope this has been some use and I hope the bug gets resolved once and for all