In a message dated 7/14/2004 11:22:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
zzidre mail ru writes:
I think the idea is that when you press 'Del' your files are not
actually beign deleted, they're moving to trash instead and it's
not so
dangerous, and you're really warned when you try to delete something
from trash permanently. There are two settings for it: whether you
should receive warnings when you act in trash or not and if there
should
be a way to bypass trash with Shift+Delete.
Btw, there is an opinion (and I'm with it) that to press something
like
'Del' is less likely than to hit 'Reset' with my leg shaking under
the table
Dmitry
Thanks for the clarification -- Dimitry and all. Now I understand why,
when I deleted a bunch of video files from a RAID array using
Nautilus, the space on my OS drive dropped by 500 MB! The files went
into the trash! That wasn't the behavior I expected.
So, I can enable Shift-Delete in the preferences? And when I use
Shift-Delete, will I be asked for confirmation Yes/No?
It may be more likely to hit 'Reset" than to press "Del" -- but I have
been in the situation a couple of times where I thought I had selected
directory "A", but I had really selected directory "B" just below it.
I once hit Shift-Del (this was in Windows) and I lost about 80 GB of
video files in a flash. It was a bummer. I had meant to delete the
directory above it. So, having a confirmation gives you a chance to
see your error.
By the way, is there a way to make Nautilus create a Trash on every
Hard Drive -- so that when you delete something from THAT drive, it's
only moved to a new location rather than copied onto the system drive?
Andy Liebman