Cannot clear the ~/Private/.Trash-xxxx

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Binary package hint: ecryptfs-utils

Intrepid Ibex - last updated
Kernel 2.6.27-7-generic
Gnome-Desktop 2.24

Using ecryptfs-utils - all working fine (known bugs excluded), but:

If you want to delete a file in the folder ~/Private via Nautilus-Menu-Option -> "Move to Trash", the file to be deleted will be moved to the folder ~/Private/.Trash-xxxx into the relevant sub-folders respectivily. And there they are gathered forever. You can't delete them via Desktop-Trash-Icon (it's empty!!)

Using a Terminal and typing -> "rm -f filename" inside the folder ~/Private the file will be deleted finally. Or using the Nautilus-Menu-Option "cut" and "paste" outside ~/Private, to delete them there, is working.

Notice: Also tested with jaunty - same error.

[chadwik (chadwik)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Confirmed in ecryptfs-utils 53-1ubuntu13 from the intrepid-proposed repository.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

I'm adding a task for Nautilus, as I'm not sure that there's something I can do about this in ecryptfs.

Nautilus developers-

Ideas?

:-Dustin

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

It's probably more likely a GVFS issue than a Nautilus one. Running "gvfs-ls trash:" also doesn't display any files

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Okay, I'm adding a gvfs task.

gvfs-developers-

Any suggestions?

:-Dustin

[A. Walton (awalton)]

The GVFS portion is reported here already as launchpad bug 106621. It seems to be a problem in the gvfsd-trash backend, with us sometimes not catching new volumes being mounted and thusly monitoring the new trash locations on the new volumes and merging in the trashed files.

Need to ping Ryan Lortie (desrt) and see what the status of his trash backend rewrite is, which will hopefully not have this problem.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Thanks for the pointer!

I'm going to mark as duplicate.

:-Dustin

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.