Re: Delete Key and Nautilus

["Dmitry M. Shatrov" <zzidre mail ru>]

AndyLiebman aol com wrote:

> In a message dated 7/14/2004 11:22:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> zzidre mail ru writes:
>
>     I think the idea is that when you press 'Del' your files are not
>     actually beign deleted, they're moving to trash instead and it's
>     not so
>     dangerous, and you're really warned when you try to delete something
>     from trash permanently. There are two settings for it: whether you
>     should receive warnings when you act in trash or not and if there
>     should
>     be a way to bypass trash with Shift+Delete.
>
>     Btw, there is an opinion (and I'm with it) that to press something
>     like
>     'Del' is less likely than to hit 'Reset' with my leg shaking under
>     the table
>
>     Dmitry
>
> Thanks for the clarification -- Dimitry and all. Now I understand why, 
> when I deleted a bunch of video files from a RAID array using 
> Nautilus, the space on my OS drive dropped by 500 MB! The files went 
> into the trash! That wasn't the behavior I expected.
>  
> So, I can enable Shift-Delete in the preferences? And when I use 
> Shift-Delete, will I be asked for confirmation Yes/No?
>  
> It may be more likely to hit 'Reset" than to press "Del" -- but I have 
> been in the situation a couple of times where I thought I had selected 
> directory "A", but I had really selected directory "B" just below it. 
> I once hit Shift-Del (this was in Windows) and I lost about 80 GB of 
> video files in a flash. It was a bummer. I had meant to delete the 
> directory above it. So, having a confirmation gives you a chance to 
> see your error.
>  
> By the way, is there a way to make Nautilus create a Trash on every 
> Hard Drive -- so that when you delete something from THAT drive, it's 
> only moved to a new location rather than copied onto the system drive?
>  
> Andy Liebman

Well, the presence of confirmation is easy to see. Press Shift+Del on 
something really important for you.

I agree, GNOME trash is not what could be called "fine". I think also, 
the second part of your question is more about gnome-vfs (try waking up 
their mailing list?): nautilus operates on top of it as far as I know, 
and if we want good trash (we do!) it probably should be implemented in 
gnome-vfs code

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