NTFS Trash Problem

[pt123]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Now in Hardy when you delete a file on the NTFS partition it says it can not move to trash and that you can only immediately delete it. This permanently deletes the file.

In Gutsy it would move the file into the .Trash-username folder.
This setting in Hardy is very dangerous. esp. for new users that trying out Ubuntu.

The Gutsy method was a lot safer, because when you accidentally delete something a standard ubuntu user would know to check the .Trash-username folder.
As for a new ubuntu user, they might have a panic attack and end up searching the internet for a solution. Finding that it is in the .Trash-username folder is re-assuring, compared to it is gone forever.
Even the warning message is not clear enough too. "Do want to delete immediately" it should have in it "will be permanently lost/deleted".

Then you have to ponder how useful is a warning message that comes immediately after the user has requested to delete a file. It is usually after minutes or hours when one recognises they have incorrectly deleted a file.

A lot of these new users trying out Ubuntu will have NTFS drives holding their valuable data. This is going to give them an awful experience.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

[pt123 (pt123)]

But looking at the referred bug, fat32 deletion works fine for me. It is just NTFS drives.

[Victor Zamanian (victorz)]

Both FAT32 and NTFS partitions/disks are affected by this bug for me.