Comment 90 for bug 40872

I almost erased my 750gb external hard drive because of this bug. There were some pictures on my desktop that I wanted to delete, so I drew a box around them and dragged them to the trash can. Turns out the mounted partition's icon was hiding under them.

Had I been a lesser computer guy, I most likely would not have realized what was going on when the trash can said that what I wanted to erase was too big for the trash can, and could only be deleted. I would have clicked "ok" then wondered why it was taking so long. I also probably would not have had my data backed up.