Cannot move files to Trash

[florin]

Nautilus reacts strange from the user's point of view: as long as it is configured to move files to Trash, when I delete something, it should always move files to Trash. But it does not react like this on some occasions, I could not figure it out exactly.

One case is when I delete files from NTFS mounted partitions (local hard disk). Another case seems to be when I delete files belonging to Root or some other user (I think).

This does not make any sense. Either it puts all files in Trash, either it does not, but for all the files I delete. This is unreliable reaction as I do not know when I am safe to delete and recover a file and when I am not.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.39-generic 3.2.16
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: atl1c
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jun 11 15:07:47 2012
GsettingsChanges:
 org.gnome.nautilus.window-state geometry '784x550+49+24'
 org.gnome.nautilus.window-state start-with-status-bar true
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[florin (florin-arjocu)]

A add a screenshot this test case: I run LAMPP on this computer and it is installed in /opt/lampp. The standard installation makes it belonging to root user. The subfolder "htdocs" belongs to my user and in htdocs folder I have multiple folders, that also belong to my user (florin).

cd /opt/lampp
ls -al
drwxrwxr-x 33 florin florin 4096 Jun 11 15:27 htdocs

cd htdocs
ls -al
drwxrwxr-x 33 florin florin 4096 Jun 11 15:27 .
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Apr 27 20:53 ..
drwxrwxr-x 2 florin florin 4096 Jun 11 15:32 Untitled Folder

So, if I delete the Untitled Folder, I cannot use the Trash, although it belongs to my user (the '..' of the parent folder belongs to root).

See the delete dialog: 'Cannot move file to trash, do you want to delete immediately? - The file "Untitled Folder" cannot be moved to the trash.'

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The described testcase works fine in the current version