Carl Hartung wrote:
On Friday 21 July 2006 17:54, Jim Flanagan wrote:
While logged into KDE, whenever I seelect a file or dir to Move to Trash, it never goes there, but gets deleted instead. This is in SuSE 10.0, with default KDE 3.4.2 level b. I don't have this problem with my 9.3 setup. I looked in Control Center but could not find a setting that will change this behaviour. Any suggestions welcome.
Jim,
Please check the SLE archives or do some CLI forensic troubleshooting (a.k.a. "poking around.")
I seem to recall something like this around the time that 10.0 came out. The problem was the existence of two 'trash' directories (one KDE & one GNOME?)
The one linked to 'Move to trash' is /not/ the one displayed on your desktop, so the 'other trash bin' is silently filling up. ;-)
hth & regards,
Carl
Hi Carl, Did that before, never found anything. Will look again. I am curious as to why this could happen, I've never had gnome on this box. It must be a KDE thing. In Control Center>KDE Components>File Manager, under the Behavior tab, there is a check box that says "show 'delete' context menu entries which bypass the trashcan". If I enable this, the context menu shows items for both "move to trash" and "delete". In this case the move to trash functions as it should, as does the delete item. If I de-select this box, only "move to trash" is shown in the context menu (no delete option), but the move to trash functions as a delete function. This is definitely NOT how this function works in suse 9.3. Will keep searching the archives, but there only appears to be possible threads on this, but in German only, which I can't read. Many thanks, Jim Flanagan