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

[Gary Frederick <gary frederick jsoft com>]

I have:

$ df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda7             18097460   1359936  15818208   8% /
/dev/hda2                23333      4540     17589  21% /boot
/dev/hda5             35925832  15364292  18736560  46% /usr
none                    256312         0    256312   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1              3099260    974324   1967504  34% /home

and Trash on /usr/ggf stopped working when I upgraded from RedHat 7.0 to 
7.2.

I just added /ggf and Trash works there as I thought it should.

Trash on /home/ggf works and I do not have write on /home. I 'assumed' 
that was because /home/ggf was my home directory.





/home/ggf/.gnome/gnome-vfs/.trash_entry_cache has

  /ggf /ggf/.Trash-ggf
  /usr -
  / -
  /boot -
  /proc -
  /mnt/floppy -


I tried adding
  /usr/ggf
as the second line but it didn't 'work'. Is .trash_entry_cache involved 
with Trash?

???

Gary



Owen Taylor wrote:

> 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