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The document viewer is I think the best for reading pdf files, but after I formatted my PC, it doesn't remember the last page I was on, how can I configure the default ubuntu document viewer to remember the last page I was on before I closed the pdf the last time?

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evince stores the last page and per-document viewing options by default, in typical GNOME fashion, cannot even deactivate it.

The information is stored in two files in $HOME/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/, root-<4bytes>.log and home-<4bytes>.log. If you delete them, evince should generate new ones after the next start of the program and work as expected.

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  • but my evince somehow doesn't do this. Why could this be?
    – mathmaniage
    Mar 15, 2018 at 14:43
  • Look if the folder mentioned above exists and is writable. Delete the root-*.log and home-*.log, if they are already there. evince should now work for future files you open with it. Check if new files are generated when you open evince.
    – emk2203
    Mar 15, 2018 at 14:46
  • the latter folder is not available
    – mathmaniage
    Mar 16, 2018 at 5:48
  • And I deleted the folder as you said, but evince didn't create it again, when I restarted it
    – mathmaniage
    Mar 16, 2018 at 5:51
  • however, I restored the items from the recycle bin and changed the permissions of the files that existed in the folder, and it worked!! Thanks
    – mathmaniage
    Mar 16, 2018 at 5:53

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