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Komodo

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From: Oxford, UK

Registered: 2005-11-03

Posts: 674

KDE trash can slow to respond after long time in desktop

I switched to KDE yesterday after over a year in ratpoison, and am very pleased with the response speed of everything.

However, one irritation exists: after spending some time logged in, choosing to either delete some file(s) or empty the trash can takes about 3 minutes - the 'Progress' dialog appears, stays on 0%, then several minutes later it closes and the action is completed. :shock:

What could be causing this delay?

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ScriptDevil

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From: In Front of My PC

Registered: 2006-04-06

Posts: 253

Re: KDE trash can slow to respond after long time in desktop

try rm from command line
use rm -r for folders

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ralvy

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From: Santa Monica, California

Registered: 2004-12-06

Posts: 275

Re: KDE trash can slow to respond after long time in desktop

I switched to KDE yesterday after over a year in ratpoison, and am very pleased with the response speed of everything.

However, one irritation exists: after spending some time logged in, choosing to either delete some file(s) or empty the trash can takes about 3 minutes - the 'Progress' dialog appears, stays on 0%, then several minutes later it closes and the action is completed. :shock:

What could be causing this delay?

I too have noticed this behavior, and it only occurs in Arch, not in Fedora Core 5, Slackware 11, Centos 4.3, Mepis 6, Debian Etch, or Kubuntu 6.06.

detto

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Registered: 2006-01-23

Posts: 510

Re: KDE trash can slow to respond after long time in desktop

What filesystem do you use?

ralvy

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From: Santa Monica, California

Registered: 2004-12-06

Posts: 275

Re: KDE trash can slow to respond after long time in desktop

What filesystem do you use?

ext3

cdhotfire

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From: Ocala, Florida

Registered: 2006-02-13

Posts: 151

Re: KDE trash can slow to respond after long time in desktop

I would also like to know about this. ext3 also.

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con

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Registered: 2006-05-11

Posts: 89

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Re: KDE trash can slow to respond after long time in desktop

Same here...reiserfs

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con

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Registered: 2006-05-11

Posts: 89

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Re: KDE trash can slow to respond after long time in desktop

I deleted the files in ~/.local/share/Trash/files/  which seems to have helped. Could be a possible solution, please try and post if it helps.

edit: forgot 'if' in the last sentence  :oops:

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mpie

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From: 404 Not found

Registered: 2005-03-06

Posts: 649

Re: KDE trash can slow to respond after long time in desktop

yep... this issue has been menioned before but its still here

gkal

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From: Athens-Greece

Registered: 2006-09-09

Posts: 38

Re: KDE trash can slow to respond after long time in desktop

I too have noticed this behavior, and it only occurs in Arch, not in Fedora Core 5, Slackware 11, Centos 4.3, Mepis 6, Debian Etch, or Kubuntu 6.06.

I have noticed that but when using Slackware 10.2, not in arch.

Maybe it's not a problem of Arch but KDE's.

con

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Registered: 2006-05-11

Posts: 89

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Re: KDE trash can slow to respond after long time in desktop

Yes, I had the same problem in Slack10.2. I think what causes it is some files in the thrash bin might not have proper permissions to be deleted. Havent tested but I think rm also works like that, if theres one file in a folder that you dont own and you try to rm it, rm says permission denied and doesnt delete the other files either

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