[nmglug] Mistake while emptying trash -- help

[LeRoy Diener]

Hi NMGLUG folks,

Thanks again.
Ted: your ideas make sense.
Mark: I tried your suggestions. I'll explain better what I wrote on 22 Oct.
Ted explained it well.

When this feature was "working right", when I deleted a file from the
Desktop folder, the filename disappeared from Desktop and the filename
appeared in Trash/files and Trash/info. To resonate with Ted, that
functionality seems to match the mv command with the addition of also
creating a file in Trash/info, presumably that file having nothing but the
path which the file was moved from.
That functionality seems to have stopped now in my OS. When I delete a file
now, it seems to match the rm command.

I used the find command in several scenarios with some files which I
deleted, some files I moved, etc. The results matched what I wrote above.
Using sudo gave the same results. Rebooting gave the same results.

Any ideas about how to regain the original functionality, so that files
deleted using GUI will be moved to Trash?
LeRoy
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On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 9:49 PM Ted Pomeroy <ted.pome at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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