Not allowing me to move my files to trash?

FathisAeril · 2010-08-01 06:55:53

Title pretty much sums it up, whenever I hit the delete the key on a file (even files and folders in my own home directory) It says "Cannot move file to trash.." ANY File. I go to trash, its empty. Is there some obscure Trash group that I completly missed? Could my Trash permissions some how have gotten screwed up somehow?

fsckd · 2010-08-01 07:13:02

Please show us the output of ls -ld ~/.Trash $XDG_DATA_HOME/Trash/{,files,info} .

Last edited by fsckd (2010-08-01 07:16:06)

Proofrific · 2010-08-01 17:16:03

What desktop environment are you using? Gnome, KDE, XFCE, etc.?

FathisAeril · 2010-08-02 05:08:56

fsckd:

ls: cannot access /home/eric/.Trash: No such file or directory
drwx------ 4 eric users 4096 Aug 1 12:00 /home/eric/.local/share/Trash/
drwx------ 4 eric users 4096 Aug 1 23:58 /home/eric/.local/share/Trash/files
drwx------ 2 eric users 4096 Aug 1 23:58 /home/eric/.local/share/Trash/info

I can now move files from home to trash, a reboot seemed to fix it I guess so maybe it was just a random boot glitch. But the fact I don't have a .Trash is rather odd isnt it?

Also, I've got some files INSIDE trash, that its not letting me delete. If I tell it to delete permanently it errors out with "Failed to delete file from trash' ...not very useful as an error.

if i try to gksu into nautilus, and then hit the trash bookmark on the side. it gives me an error of:

The folder contents could not be displayed.
Sorry, could not display all the contents of "trash": Operation not supported

Proof, DE is Gnome

Last edited by FathisAeril (2010-08-02 05:10:54)

fsckd · 2010-08-02 06:04:16

FathisAeril wrote:

But the fact I don't have a .Trash is rather odd isnt it?

Not really, that is the old trash folder. I asked for it just in case.

FathisAeril · 2010-08-02 20:03:43

Okay, but what about the files I cant delete? Theyre not large files or anything, its just really annoying that I cannot seem to delete them

Proofrific · 2010-08-03 03:49:57

This is probably dumb, but can you delete files from the command-line/terminal? If not, then something in Gnome got messed up. I wonder if you can just delete the trash directory, then have Gnome recreate them.

FathisAeril · 2010-08-03 05:12:19

Figured out what happened. I deleted some thing on my external harddrive (NTFS), they got placed in their own .Trash-1000 folder, which the contents were viewable from normal Trash, and since that drive was Read only (didnt have NTFS-3G installed yet) whenevever Id go to delete them, it couldnt write to the drive to unwrite the files.

Files are gone, Trash is acting normally, no weird mysterious things happening. Thanks Proof, it was trying to delete them from command line and seeing the "read only file system" message that reminded me I didnt install NTFS-3G

bernarcher · 2010-08-03 06:30:48

This should be reported upstream. It is clearly a user interface fault which should notify the user of the read only state of the filesystem where the trashcan sits - if they ever check this condition (which I doubt in far too many applications ).

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#1 2010-08-01 06:55:53

Not allowing me to move my files to trash?

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Re: Not allowing me to move my files to trash?

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