Re: [Nautilus-list] my trash is broke???

[Gary Frederick <gary frederick jsoft com>]

That was it. I upgraded and ...

I tested by moving some stuff from /usr/ggf to /ggf, tested and it 
deleted the file. I have been thinking I needed to get my stuff out of 
/usr/ggf for a while. Sounds like another reason to do so
 ... soon (-:

Thanks,

Gary

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> Gary Frederick <gary frederick jsoft com> writes:
>
> > Trash stopped working on directories other than my home directory a
> > few weeks ago.
> >
> > If I select a file and press the Delete key on a file on my home
> > directory, it's moved to the trash can.
> >
> > If I try the same on another directory (eg /usr/ggf/somefile), a
> > message comes up telling me that the file can't be moved to Trash and
> > asking if I want to delete it immediatly.
> >
> > How do I set up Nautilus to work with Trash on other directories?
>
> Maybe you upgraded Nautilus, the "find somewhere to put trash"
> algorithm changed. It used to spend a long time looking for a writable
> directory on a given device where it could put trash. This took a
> really long time and was a bad idea for various reasons. (Think AFS
> and automount for example.)
>
> Newer Nautilus basically gives up if the root of the device isn't
> writable, and decides it can't trash things on that partition/device.
> So you generally can't trash things on your / partition. The old
> behavior would have selected some writable directory under / and put
> the trash there, which is probably not desired.
>
> Havoc