[Re: Trash Problems]

["David M. Carney" <carney1979 gmail com>]

Nickolay V. Shmyrev wrote:

> > 1) When you "move to trash" a file or a folder inside your home
> > directory with Nautilus, the file or the folder is moved to ~/.Thrash
> > hidden directory (by GnomeVfs)
> >
> > 2) When you "move to trash" a file or a foldler on a removable device
> > (suck as USB stick) with Nautilus, the file or the folder is moved the
> > a .Trash hidden directory in the toplevel directory of removable volume
> > (i.e. on /media/usbdisk/.Trash/) (by GnomeVfs)
> >
> > 3) When you open or look the trash:// location with Nautilus, you will
> > see files in ~/.Trash directory and in all .Trash directories on mounted
> > removable devices (by GnomeVfs)
> >
> > 4) When you unmount removable devices, the trash:// contents is
> > collected only by ~/.Trash content (by GnomeVfs)
> >
> > 4) The only interaction of trashapplet with trash in on its tooltip and
> > honestry it seems to me [1] that it's using only ~/.Trash
> >
> >
> > PPS this is developers list ;-)
>
> Yeah, and this is the development problem.
>
> Mostly this behavior exists due to the bug in gnome-vfs - it's
> impossible to xfer files between filysystems. So it's impossible to move
> files to trash in home directory. See
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309592
>
>
> Since people that are responsible for that bug are here, let me ask once
> again:
>
> Please review the patch attached to the bug while we are in the early
> stage of release cycle, otherwise it will be postponed to the next year
> once again. Of course, it will be pain to remove all existing
> workarounds also, but at least new programs will be more consistent.
I deleted my ~/.Trash folder, logged out of Gnome, then back in. It was 
recreated.

I deleted a file with Nautilus. It went to ~/.Trash. Trash applet didn't 
know it was there.

Previously, my USB jump drive had a hidden folder named .Trash-david. 
david is of course my username.

I deleted it in an attempt to get things straightened out. It didn't work.

Before I deleted it, anytime I plugged in my USB drive, if there was 
trash in the .Trash-david folder, my panel's trash applet would suddenly 
show full.

Just now I inserted my USB drive and copied a file to it. I then deleted 
that file. My trash applet still shows empty, though trash:// in 
Nautilus takes me to my USB drive's .Trash-david folder. If I click my 
panel's trash applet, Nautilus opens the USB drive's .Trash-david folder.

I'd like to know what I did to screw this up so I could fix it. At one 
time it all worked as advertised.

David