[nmglug] Mistake while emptying trash -- help

[LeRoy Diener]

Hi NMGLUG folks,

Still not working right.
I tried what Mark Galassi said and a few variations of that.
I got the file permissions to show up as drwx-------- from the chmod 700
approach and also from copying in new folders from a backup of the home
directory, but still not working right.

When I say "working right" in this context, it is this:
When I delete a file in some folder, I get a prompt "Delete 1 selected
item?" When I click yes, that filename appears in the Trash directories
file and info.
When I say "not working right" in this context, it is the same as above,
but the Trash directories file and info remain empty. It appears that disk
space is getting freed up. Other than that, I'm not sure if the files are
getting deleted or what is happening.

Any help? (By the way, thanks for everyone's help over the years.)
LeRoy
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On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 11:47 AM Art Barnes <art at pin2.io> wrote:

> Maybe not helpful for Leroy (or even avoiding his particular goof), but
> the trash-cli package is helpful for those who do file management on the
> command line
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Oct 21, 2021, at 10:43 AM, Mark Galassi <mark at galassi.org> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > First, a strong caution: you absolutely do not want an "rm -rf *" in
> your shell's history.  I find that one way of avoiding possibly problems
> with repeating history while in the wrong dir is to do something like "rm
> -rf ../Trash/*"
> >
> > As to your current question: if you just want to know the typical
> permissions on those dirs, below is what mine look like, so you can
> probably just do "mkdir files && chmod 700 files" and "mkdir info && chmod
> 700 info".
> >
> > Trash $ pwd
> > /home/markgalassi/.local/share/Trash
> > Trash $ ls -la
> > total 20
> > drwx------  5 markgalassi markgalassi 4096 Feb  3  2021 .
> > drwxrwxr-x 51 markgalassi markgalassi 4096 Oct 21 09:49 ..
> > drwx------  2 markgalassi markgalassi 4096 Jun 30 22:00 expunged
> > drwx------  3 markgalassi markgalassi 4096 Oct 14 14:12 files
> > drwx------  2 markgalassi markgalassi 4096 Oct 14 14:12 info
> > Trash $
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