[26936] in Athena Bugs
9.4.27 linux: nautilus file deletion is horribly broken
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Tue Aug 29 19:50:28 2006
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 19:50:09 -0400 (EDT)
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I'm sorry I should have reported this long ago,
after seeing many users wrestle with it. I just
couldn't believe the problem was so bad and thought
I was seeing a corner case :(
It appears that if you delete a file in nautilus (right-click, Move To Trash),
the file is moved to ~/.Trash, and there is no way to actually remove it.
Right-clicking on the Trash icon, the "Empty Trash" is greyed out.
Double-clicking the Trash icon, there are no files inside.
This leads to rampant user confusion when users go over quota and
try to delete files, and they are all happily moved to ~/.Trash
but no free space appears.
I just finished testing it with sipbtest and I haven't been able to
find a way to make it work.
(Furthermore, it's my recollection that nautilus sometimes gives bogus
values for free space on the device, which doesn't help user confusion).
--jhawk
