[nmglug] Mistake while emptying trash -- help

[Ted Pomeroy]

LeRoy & NMGLUGers, Is there,  perhaps, a difference between "Delete" and
"Move to Trash" in the GUI? "Delete" seems to act like 'rm' in my system.
"Move to Trash" acts like 'mv ./someFile.txt ~/.local/share/Trash/files
someFile.txt' That is: from any of my directories below my home folder
"Move to Trash" moves a file to my ~/.local/share/Trash/files/
sub-directory.  However, I am using Xubuntu, but consider that the GUI in
most cases operates the same way and obscure the command that is actually
executed.  I don't know if this will be helpful.
Thank you, Ted P

On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 5:39 PM Mark Galassi <mark at galassi.org> wrote:

>
> Make sure you have fully logged out, or maybe even rebooted, since some
> processes in your desktop might keep an open file descriptor on a directory
> (unlikely but possible), so you want to restart that.
>
> I don't understand at all what you are saying; it appears form your words
> that files both appear and don't appear.  But in any case, the graphical
> interface is not the final arbiter of whether files are around or not.
> After your reboot (if you had not yet done that), do a:
>
> 1. Make a file called junk_special_name.txt with some junk in it.
>
> 2. Delete it the way you are saying, when you say you cannot then find it.
>
> 3. Run "find ~ -name junk_special_name.txt" at the shell and see what
> comes up.  You can also try the very unlikely to be relevant "sudo find
> /tmp/ -name junk_special_name.txt"
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