[26220] in Athena Bugs
nautilus trash bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erica H Peterson)
Tue Dec 7 14:12:38 2004
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 14:12:04 -0500 (EST)
From: Erica H Peterson <astronut@mit.edu>
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Hello,
OLC received a question today from a user that had moved files to the
Trash in nautilus, but did not notice a corresponding decrease in her
quota. The cause ended up being that the files had been moved to
~/.Trash/, and were not visible when looking at the Trash in nautilus.
This prompted some exploration of the behavior of nautilus and the trash:
- Right-clicking on files and selecting "move to trash" in the
top-level directory yields an error, "<filename> cannot be moved to
the Trash. Do you want to delete it immediately?" If the file is
then deleted, it is removed forever and does not appear in the
trash, as expected.
- In subfolders (not the top-level directory), right-clicking and
selecting "move to trash" does not yield any errors, and the files
disappear, presumably to the trash.
- After moving files from subfolders into the trash, there are no new
files (or even hidden files) that appear in the nautilus "Trash",
viewed by double-clicking the trash icon on the desktop.
Right-clicking on the Trash icon shows that the "empty trash"
option is grayed out. However, those files do appear in ~/.Trash/, and
continue to take up space until they are deleted from an Athena prompt
by running "rm .Trash/*"
Thanks,
Erica Peterson
Athena Consultant
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Erica H. Peterson
astronut@mit.edu
