[opensuse] emptying Trash problem on suse 10.0 and 10.2
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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. All the users of the PC get the same message when trying to empty Trash. I also created a completely new user, and the same thing happens. The problem occurs both on the suse 10 system on a desktop and suse 10.2 on a notebook. -- John johnmking_uk@yahoo.co.uk ___________________________________________________________ The all-new Yahoo! Mail goes wherever you go - free your email address from your Internet provider. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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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).. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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On Monday, 14. May 2007 10:07:07 John King wrote:
Since carrying out an update through Yast last week, I've been faced with a problem emptying Trash of deleted files.
It will be fixed in the KDE 3.5.7 packages. Bye, Steve -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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John Andersen
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John King
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