"Ejecting" USB (ex. Camera) doesn't offer to empty Trash

[Scott Cowles Jacobs]

I have Lubuntu 13.10 (originally 12.04). I added Nautilus, so that I could have it show date/time for photos under the thumbnails, so I can easily group them.
[The current version does not have the option of selecting the type of date displayed under the thumbnails in the preferences, so I had to install Nemo, which is based on an earlier version of Nautilus, and still can. I retained Nautilus, for some reason, and the bug is true for both apps. ]

When I copy photos from my USB-attached camera, I send them to trash when I am satisfied the copy was successful.
When I had regular Ubuntu (various versions prior to 12.04) and clicked on "Eject" or "Safely remove drive", or whatever, I was asked whether or not I wished to empty the trash or not.

At some point in Nautilus' development, some things changed.
Now, there is only one option: Eject (or the equivilent clicking on the eject icon next to the device name).
Now, when I select "Eject" or click on the icon, I am NOT asked if I want to empty the trash. I have repeatedly attached/removed the camera and tried both the context item and icon, but am not asked about the trash.
I have to separately "select all" files in the two Trash sub-directories and click shift-del (and confirm that I wish to permanently delete the files).
Why is Nautilus not asking me if I want to empty the trash?

[Awhile ago, there was some discussion about the USB removal options that used to be present: "Eject", "Safely Remove Drive", and I think there might have also been a third one. I imagine the consensus was that having multiple options for essentially (literally?) the same operation was probably confusing to the user, and therefore the options were reduced to "Eject". Am I correct? The Trash ought to be emptied, in any case...]

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scott@scott-ASUS-M2N68-AM-PLUS:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 13.10
Release: 13.10
Codename: saucy
scott@scott-ASUS-M2N68-AM-PLUS:~$ nautilus --version
GNOME nautilus 3.8.2

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.8.2-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-13.20~ppa1-generic-tuxonice 3.11.6
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-13-generic-tuxonice i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Nov 30 11:48:52 2013
GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'maximized' b'true'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-27 (33 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release i386 (20131016.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
modified.conffile..etc.xdg.autostart.nautilus.autostart.desktop: [deleted]
usr_lib_nautilus:
 evince 3.10.0-0ubuntu2
 file-roller 3.10.1-0ubuntu1
 gnome-mplayer 1.0.8-2

[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.

[Scott Cowles Jacobs (scott092707)]

I searched for and found a bug that matches this:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603390

However, not counting my just-entered comment, the last activity on the bug was 2010-09-02, so I do not know if they are paying any attention to it or not...

The bug has certainly not been fixed between then and now...

Other than entering my comment there, should I be doing anything there to bring the bug to their attention?

[Waz (paviluf)]

I have this problem in Ubuntu 14.04.
Nautilus don't ask "Do you want to empty the trash" when I unmount an usb stick.

In Ubuntu 13.10 when I unmount a usb stick in nautilus it ask me if I want to empty the trash.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Scott Cowles Jacobs (scott092707)]

...not to be nit-picky, but since I reported this on 2013-11-30, and Jeremy reported his on 2014-07-20 (after first commenting here on 2014-05-08 with the same wording), I would say that his was a duplicate of mine, not vice-versa.

Perhaps his will get more notice, though, being more recent...

-Scott