Emptying trash shows a "Preparing" dialog with a non-moving progress bar

[John Leach]

Binary package hint: nautilus

When emptying the trash (I used the "Empty Deleted Items" button at the top of the file list in Nautilus) a new gvfs style dialog pops up with a progress bar at 0% saying "Preparing". It stays at 0% for the duration of the empty and then disappears when it's done.

I imagine it should say "Emptying Deleted Items" and the progress bar should either update, or not be displayed at all.

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"

ii nautilus 1:2.21.92svn20080303-0ubuntu1
ii gvfs 0.1.8svn20080303-0ubuntu1 userspace virtual filesystem - server
ii gvfs-backends 0.1.8svn20080303-0ubuntu1 userspace virtual filesystem - backends
ii gvfs-bin 0.1.8svn20080303-0ubuntu1 userspace virtual filesystem - binaries
ii gvfs-fuse 0.1.8svn20080303-0ubuntu1 userspace virtual filesystem - fuse server

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=521198

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue is only cosmetic and not a hardy blocker

[JD (jacobdorne)]

Happens the same on Hardy Beta with the latest updates.

[Miloš Mandarić (mandzo18)]

I had the same issue on Intrepid. Couldn't stop the deleting process by clicking on X or stop icon. I pressed on the "Empty trash" again and that deleted everything from Trash. But the first process remained and left as tray icon. First process have ended after restarting nautilus.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue seems resolved in newer versions