making shortcut to home folder on desktop

[drewsk404]

Binary package hint: nautilus

instead, it copied the entire user folder to desktop. it stopped, saying it couldn't copy some certain files in a redundant array of folders like user/desktop/user/desktop/user/desktop/user/desktop/..... and so on. trashed item because it was only a copy and not the original and now it cannot be removed from trash. impossible to remove item from trash to delete.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu May 15 00:34:59 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
Package: nautilus 1:2.22.2-0ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[Nick Ellery (nick.ellery)]

Does this bug occur every time you do this, or was it a one time thing?

[drewsk404 (drewsk404)]

every time. i even tried to cut/paste from trash back to desktop and trashed it again. now i have 2 unremovable folders in the trash. definitely is not an isolated incident.

[drewsk404 (drewsk404)]

mins you also these are just copies of the original home folder, not the original. here is the dir structure of one of them: trash:///_monkey.2/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/monkey/Desktop/mo...

[drewsk404 (drewsk404)]

what makes even less sense is this dir structure never existed in the first place in such redundancy. it appeared this way after being put in the trash. is there a way to get rid of this? there is another one just like it except it starts as trash:///_monkey.1/desktop/etc....

[drewsk404 (drewsk404)]

ok i got rid of them using this command:

root@monkey-laptop:/# rm -rf /home/monkey/.local/share/Trash/files/

created a new "files" folder

everything 'seems' ok. but why would this happen?

[A. Walton (awalton)]

It's been reported here, but I can't find the bug number (I should be in bed, it's 2am my time...), but the upstream bug for it is here:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530720

It should be rather high-priority that Ubuntu adopts either this patch or a similar one, and we really should push a version of it into 2.22 (one that doesn't add any UI elements or new strings). I'm not sure what's best for Ubuntu, but I would be for adopting the existing patch, since it's in trunk already, even if it means we'll have some more work to do translation-wise.

[drewsk404 (drewsk404)]

A little background: Honestly until 2 days ago it had been 6 years since I have used Linux, but I got SO SICK of Vista which came on my machine.

This is the first bug so far that I have come in contact with while using Ububtu 8.0.4, which by the way is the best Linux release I have ever seen. Used to be a Redhat user. I am using Ubuntu on a Gateway MT6705 (~1 year old laptop) and it detected all hardware from the start.
But yeah, it took me a minute but I found the trash folder. The trash folder has moved so many times. At one time it was in /usr, its been in /root i think, and now its hidden in the logged-in user's folder.

Just open the Terminal and type: rm -rf /home/(username)/.local/share/Trash/files/
I found some files related to the problem in: .../Trash/info/ also, so I performed "rm -rf" on that folder also.

It deletes the folders but the system creates them again as soon as you open the Trashcan. If nothing else, this can be considered a workaround until a patch comes out.

Perhaps others can benefit from this information.
-Andrew