From c0b03e147b0a4f5a12c2aed8f44790e0a409b4a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jelveh <nj@puter.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 21:03:28 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] add redundant readdir to cache the home dir

---
 src/backend/src/routers/whoami.js | 10 +++-------
 src/gui/src/UI/UIDesktop.js       |  5 +++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/src/routers/whoami.js b/src/backend/src/routers/whoami.js
index 9898fc03e..bb14469d5 100644
--- a/src/backend/src/routers/whoami.js
+++ b/src/backend/src/routers/whoami.js
@@ -56,19 +56,15 @@ const whoami_common = ({ is_user, user }) => {
     }
 
     if(user.last_activity_ts){
-        let dateString = user.last_activity_ts;
-
-        // Replace the space with 'T' to make it ISO 8601 compliant
-        const isoString = dateString.replace(' ', 'T');
 
         // Create a Date object and get the epoch timestamp
         let epoch;
         try{
-            epoch = new Date(isoString).getTime() / 1000;
+            epoch = new Date(user.last_activity_ts).getTime();
             // round to 1 decimal place
-            epoch = Math.round(epoch);
+            epoch = Math.round(epoch/1000);
         }catch(e){
-            console.error('Error parsing last_activity_ts', e);
+            // console.error('Error parsing last_activity_ts', e);
         }
 
         // add last_activity_ts
diff --git a/src/gui/src/UI/UIDesktop.js b/src/gui/src/UI/UIDesktop.js
index af9ad631f..0e9174da2 100644
--- a/src/gui/src/UI/UIDesktop.js
+++ b/src/gui/src/UI/UIDesktop.js
@@ -1056,6 +1056,11 @@ async function UIDesktop(options) {
             }
         })
 
+        // perform readdirs for caching purposes
+
+        // home directory
+        puter.fs.readdir({path: window.home_path, consistency: 'strong'});
+
         // Show welcome window if user hasn't already seen it and hasn't directly navigated to an app 
         if (!window.url_paths[0]?.toLocaleLowerCase() === 'app' || !window.url_paths[1]) {
             if (!isMobile.phone && !isMobile.tablet) {