Carl Hartung wrote:

On Friday 21 July 2006 17:54, Jim Flanagan wrote:

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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

Carl Hartung wrote:

On Friday 21 July 2006 20:35, Jim Flanagan wrote:

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Did that before, never found anything. Will look again.

Don't bother... what you've now described in much greater detail is not at all what I recall happening back then. You've got something else going on. Have you checked bugzilla at KDE?

Alternatively, you could update to KDE 3.5.2 or .3 level 'a'. 3.5.2 was the latest 'supplementary' available when I updated this 10.0 system and that's what I'm running now. That 'bug' and others as well as some feature enhancements might make it worth thinking about.

Hey Carl, I was thinking about that. However, when I set up my first Linux box, SuSE8.2 (which I still love by they way, still chugging, I can't seem to take it out, but essentially out of service to avoid security issues), I at first avidly kept updating trivial :) things like KDE, Samba, etc. With a kludge I updated KDE, but the menus were dorked, as were some other features. I think I updated it from the KDE site, not suse as the suse site was way to slow, and the downloads were failing. Still worked however, so considering the fact that that was the same box I first got Postfix running I decided to leave it alone after that. Quit experimenting. So considering this fact, it sometimes seems upgrading KDE is not worth the effort, unless you have a buggy version, not in 8.2, or needed upgrades or features. And, having somewhat kept up with all the serious discussion about different (and dorked) ways to update 10.1, I've been kind of laying low. Staying out of the frey. But, perhaps I should experiment on my work station, comfortably running 9.3. I could update KDE on this, considering I'd most probably do a fresh install of 10.....um.....2. Anyway, sorry for the long story, but where can I find good practical info on upgrading KDE? TIA< Jim Flanagan