Bug#527737: trash: does not show the deleted files

test123 at riseup.net test123 at riseup.net
Mon Jun 15 02:25:42 UTC 2009


OK, sorry, there's more specificity to this experience:

Basically, there is a separate filesystem mounted at /var/tmp

The nautilus Trash can does what you would expect with files that
end up in /home/user/.local/share/Trash

The nautilus Trash successfully moves files to, but CANNOT
DISPLAY OR DELETE files that end up in, /var/tmp/.Trash-1001

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There's another (tiny) filesystem mounted at /boot/grub.  Further
experimentation shows that if the permissions are set
appropriately, nautilus can deal with files in
/boot/grub/.Trash-1001 the way it's supposed to.

By the way, nautilus has been running from a terminal window this
whole time, and the only visible error message is

** (nautilus:4105): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Not supported

which must be irrelevant, but by its lonely presence it implies
that no other error messages are being generated.

So, why would nautilus be able to move files to a .Trash-*/files
folder but not display or delete them afterwards, and why would
these particular functions work on some filesystems and not
others.







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