Rubbish Bin/Trash doesn't show deleted files

[Mike M]

Hi folks,

I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 but I noticed this in 10.4 too. When I delete a file (e.g. right click "Move to the rubbish bin") the file disappears and the trash/bin icon at the bottom of my screen or on my desktop shows some content graphically but when I right click and open the recycle bin I get a nautilus window showing my rubbish bin with no files (even with Ctrl+H). The restore button is grayed out but the empty button is enabled, the status bar says 0 items.

~/.local/share/Trash has two folders "info" which has a list of things I've deleted over time and "files" which stores 178 items taking up 135 Gb. I don't have "enable delete command that bypasses trash" checked.

Thanks for your time

Mike.

[Mike M (mkmacdonagh)]

If this affects anyone else then I'd suggest the importance is higher than low as for new (especially non-technical) users it just looks like the Trash functionality doesn't work in Ubuntu.

[Jeruvy (jeruvy)]

Can you provide a walk through for us? Please also indicate details about the filesystems in use. Thanks.

[Mike M (mkmacdonagh)]

I can't really think of anything else to write other than what I wrote in the description at the top.
Could you let me know what details you think are useful and I'll dig them out?

My primary hard disk is a 500Gb ATA drive using Ext4 (v1.0) file system mounted at /

[Mike M (mkmacdonagh)]

The problem has gone away!

I'm not sure how it got resolved. I update all the time so maybe an update fixed it?
Alternatively two things I did were to:

- enable deleting things without going to trash
- cleared out the content of the physical trash ~/.local/share/Trash/files

Anyway, it now works!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

let's close the bug since that works now