Trash in FC5 not working?

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Tue Mar 28 16:15:21 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 28 March 2006 15:49, Tim wrote:
> Zubin Bharucha:
> >> The other day, I hit delete on a file. In FC4, this would send it
> >> straight to the trashcan and it would stay there until I clicked "empty
> >> trash" or until I recovered/restored it. However, here, it just
> >> disappeared like as if I'd permanently deleted it.
>
> Anne Wilson forwarded from charles f. zeitler:
> > files dragged onto the trashcan,
> > or "sent to trash" do not show up there,
> > but can be found in ~/.Trash,
> > whence they can be removed ( rm )
> > or recovered.
>
> On a friend's FC5 box, the trashcan appears to be working as expected
> (hit delete, and the files go there; or drag them there and they're
> there).  Sound's like something's variable between different owners PCs.
>
Not unusual, I think.  I've seen the same kind of variation here between 
different boxes, both with FC4 and Mandrake/Mandriva before that.  Heck, I've 
even done two Mandrake/Mandriva installs on the same box and had different 
results ;-)

aNNE
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