Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2871 mails)

[John Andersen <jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 14 May 2007, John King wrote:
> Since carrying out an update through Yast last week, I've been faced with a
> problem emptying Trash of deleted files.
>
> When I delete a file, it goes into Trash, and by right-clicking on the
> Trash bin, and selecting 'open', I can see the files listed. Also,
> in /home/<user>/.local/share/Trash/files, I can see the files.
>
> However, if I right-click on the Trash bin and select 'Empty Trash bin',
> the 'Move to trash - Kdesktop' dialogue box appears, with the message
>         'Do you really want to move this item to Trash'
> and in the listing box beneath a single forward slash - '/' - with none of
> the files listed.
>
> Not wanting to delete the root directory (if that is what the message
> means), I haven't clicked on the 'trash' button yet.

Since you are not running as root, you could not delete the / directory.
(Unless you are running as root, in which case you deserve anything
you get ;-)

Never the less, the behavior you report does not occur for me.
I don't get a request to confirm deleting trash.  (although I might
have turned that off some time ago)..


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