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kansas city shuffle

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Registered: 2015-07-20

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[SOLVED] XFCE - No trash can in terminal?

I've been looking over past articles and forums posts, but I don't appear to have a trash can folder at the following location:

~/.local/share/Trash/

I've even tried to download files and delete to see if a trash can folder would be created, but haven't had any luck in seeing a trash folder.

Bug?

The only folders I have on ~/.local/share/ are:

applications, mime and vlc

And I have tried the following with no luck.

'sudo find / -type d -name 'Trash', 'sudo find / -type d -name 'trash'

Any ideas?

Last edited by kansas city shuffle (2015-07-27 19:43:15)

Chazza

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Re: [SOLVED] XFCE - No trash can in terminal?

Do you have gvfs installed?

kansas city shuffle

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Re: [SOLVED] XFCE - No trash can in terminal?

Do you have gvfs installed?

That did the trick thanks.

Question for you, if I didn't install gvfs and delete files, does it delete the file permanently or does it still store it in some invisible folder somewhere taking up space?

Chazza

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Re: [SOLVED] XFCE - No trash can in terminal?

I'm not entirely sure but I think the file would get deleted permanently. You could test this by uninstalling gvfs, creating a file with a distinctive name and then deleting it. Then run something like

find ~ -type f -name "myfilename"

If that returns nothing, then the file has been permanently deleted. Else, it will show you where the file has ended up. But I think it would just get permanently deleted.

Edit: tested myself. Without gvfs, Thunar deletes files permanently.

Last edited by Chazza (2015-07-27 21:37:55)

kansas city shuffle

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Registered: 2015-07-20

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Re: [SOLVED] XFCE - No trash can in terminal?

I'm not entirely sure but I think the file would get deleted permanently. You could test this by uninstalling gvfs, creating a file with a distinctive name and then deleting it. Then run something like

find ~ -type f -name "myfilename"

If that returns nothing, then the file has been permanently deleted. Else, it will show you where the file has ended up. But I think it would just get permanently deleted.

Edit: tested myself. Without gvfs, Thunar deletes files permanently.

Hmmm, that's a better option than having a Trash can as I rarely ever use it anyway but I just wanted to confirm the file didn't get stored in some netherworld folder as I deleted files from torrent but wasn't sure if it was permanently deleted. Thanks for confirming mate.

Last edited by kansas city shuffle (2015-07-27 22:27:25)