<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Hi NMGLUG folks,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Still not working right.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">I tried what Mark Galassi said and a few variations of that.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">When I say "working right" in this context, it is this:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Any help? (By the way, thanks for everyone's help over the years.)<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">LeRoy<br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>There is something glorious birthing within all of us. (New for 2021)</div>I am the Love of God, no matter what.<br>LeRoy Diener<span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:10pt"><br>213-<span>LEROYIZ</span><br>213-537-6949<br><a href="http://www.leroydiener.com/" target="_blank">www.leroydiener.com/</a></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:10pt"></span></span></span></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 11:47 AM Art Barnes <<a href="mailto:art@pin2.io">art@pin2.io</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">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<br>
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> On Oct 21, 2021, at 10:43 AM, Mark Galassi <<a href="mailto:mark@galassi.org" target="_blank">mark@galassi.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> 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/*"<br>
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> 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".<br>
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> Trash $ pwd<br>
> /home/markgalassi/.local/share/Trash<br>
> Trash $ ls -la<br>
> total 20<br>
> drwx------ 5 markgalassi markgalassi 4096 Feb 3 2021 .<br>
> drwxrwxr-x 51 markgalassi markgalassi 4096 Oct 21 09:49 ..<br>
> drwx------ 2 markgalassi markgalassi 4096 Jun 30 22:00 expunged<br>
> drwx------ 3 markgalassi markgalassi 4096 Oct 14 14:12 files<br>
> drwx------ 2 markgalassi markgalassi 4096 Oct 14 14:12 info<br>
> Trash $ <br>
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