Re: [Nautilus-list] my trash is broke???

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:

> Gary Frederick <gary frederick jsoft com> writes:
> > Trash stopped working on directories other than my home directory a
> > few weeks ago.
> > 
> > If I select a file and press the Delete key on a file on my home
> > directory, it's moved to the trash can.
> > 
> > If I try the same on another directory (eg /usr/ggf/somefile), a
> > message comes up telling me that the file can't be moved to Trash and
> > asking if I want to delete it immediatly.
> >
> > How do I set up Nautilus to work with Trash on other directories?
> > 
> 
> Maybe you upgraded Nautilus, the "find somewhere to put trash"
> algorithm changed. It used to spend a long time looking for a writable
> directory on a given device where it could put trash. This took a
> really long time and was a bad idea for various reasons. (Think AFS
> and automount for example.)
> 
> Newer Nautilus basically gives up if the root of the device isn't
> writable, and decides it can't trash things on that partition/device.
> So you generally can't trash things on your / partition. The old
> behavior would have selected some writable directory under / and put
> the trash there, which is probably not desired.

Actually, it always will use your home directory first if it is
on the same filesystem. (iirc.) Doesn't really affect the
result here if /usr and /home are on different partitions.

Regards,
                                        Owen