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

[John Sullivan <sullivan spies com>]

This exchange shows that the wording of the "delete immediately?" dialog
could probably be clarified to explain why it doesn't use the trash.

John

on 1/27/02 10:05 AM, Gary Frederick at gary frederick jsoft com wrote:

> That was it. I upgraded and ...
> 
> I tested by moving some stuff from /usr/ggf to /ggf, tested and it
> deleted the file. I have been thinking I needed to get my stuff out of
> /usr/ggf for a while. Sounds like another reason to do so
> ... soon (-:
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gary
> 
> Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> Havoc
>> 
> 
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