Comment 34 for bug 192629

I've been following this bug pretty much forever now, and I have to say I
think touristguy is not being rude or disruptive, but is bang on the mark.
The discussion was wondering off track and needed pulled back to the point.

Talk of admins granting permission to users, choice of file systems etc is
irrelevant. When I (admin and single user on 3 machines) hit the delete key,
I want the file (created, owned and writeable by me) to be sent to the trash
can. I don't care if it's on my external ext3 hard drive, my reiserfs home
partition or my vfat SD-based camera.

The fact that this doesn't happen is a bug. Let's not get bogged down in
silly rants about security, inexperienced users and "other" systems but, as
touristguy said, let's get this silly, long running and extremely irritating
bug fixed.

2009/4/10 touristguy87 <email address hidden>

> and beyond that I think that my comment was extremely helpful and it's
> dismissive of you to say otherwise.
>
> --
> "Cannot move file to trash, do you want to delete immediately?" on NTFS /
> VFAT partitions
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/192629
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> of a duplicate bug.
>
> Status in The "G" Library - GLib: New
> Status in “glib2.0” source package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Trying to delete files with nautilus from a vfat partition "fails". Well,
> the file can be deleted OK, but it seems gvfs can't send the file to the
> trashcan, so only permanent delete is available. Furthermore, the name of
> the file appears in little boxes, similar to viewing a chinese site using
> Latin-1 encoding (will attach screenshot).
>
> Distro: Hardy up to date (17-february 2008)
>
> Steps to reproduce: Copy a file to an vfat partition. Select it and delete
> using nautilus. A message error will appear:
> "Can't move file to trashcan. Do you want to delete it inmediately?"
> "File <<little-boxes>>cannot be moved to trashcan"
>
> Versions:
> Nautilus 1:2.21.91-0ubuntu2
> gvfs 0.1.7-0ubuntu4
>
> /etc/fstab for the vfat partition:
> UUID=9445-A956 /fat32 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0
> 1
>

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