[Hardy] Move To Trash broken with new gnome-vfs

[Nick Lawson]

Binary package hint: baobab

(Hardy Beta patched up to date as of writing this bug)

In the folder/file list, Right-click Move to Trash
Disk Usage Analyzer moves the file to ~/.Trash instead of ~/.local/share/Trash/files, (or just trash:/// ) so nothing shows up in the gnome-vfs trash applet, etc.

Those files moved in that way will essentially sit there until the user manually deletes them out of ~/.Trash, and will not show up in the nautilus trash folder or the trash applet etc.

[Jörn Schmidt (josc)]

same problem here.
I think bug #208277 could be related to this.

[Nick Lawson (vektuz-gmail)]

Possibly. I was under the impression that each individual app that used to move things to trash needs to have gnome-vfs support to work properly now (ie, there is no universal fix). I could be wrong.

If it's indeed the case that individual apps needs upgrades, it means bug #208277 would be because of any random app that hasn't got the vfs support yet.

However, the 'symptoms' of this bug are different from whats described there... to be more specific the system-wide trashcan shows up as empty, and opening up the trash can using the trash applet (or vfs link) shows nothing there. (Becuase the files were moved to a different folder which the trash can applet is not watching).

Basically, if the user is not knowlegable enough to know that its moving the files to ~/.trash, it will appear to them as if the files are being erased, but they will gain no disk space. The trashcan itself won't actually show up as full or needing emptying

[Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow)]

Still the case Jul 8, 2008, Hardy with all updates.

[Jérémy Subtil (bigmadwolf)]

I can confirm this bug on Aug 28, 2008.

[Hew (hew)]

I can't reproduce this on Intrepid (gnome-utils 2.24.1-0ubuntu1). Is this still a problem for others with this version?

[Hew (hew)]

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