Trash in FC5 not working?

[Dan]

Mike McCarty wrote:
> Jacques B. wrote:
>> On 3/28/06, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tuesday 28 March 2006 11:04, Zubin Bharucha wrote:
>>>
>>>> Perhaps I'm stupid but perhaps there's a problem with Gnome in FC5. 
>>>> I'm
>>>> wondering if anyone else has noticed this problem.
>>>> 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. The trash can
>>>> remained empty and obviously "empty trash" remained unhighlighted. So
>>>> what's the deal? Am I doing something wrong? Have I not selected some
>>>> option? I also tried dragging a file to the trash and it disappeared
>>>> too. Shouldn't something as basic as the trashcan work straight out of
>>>> install?
>>>> Hit back with replies if you've noticed this problem. It might be a
>>>> serious problem for some people. Luckily none of the files I deleted
>>>> were of any great importance.
>>>> -Zubin
>>>
>> Just tried it and it goes to the trash no problem on my system.  Was
>> the file too big for the recycle bin perhaps?
>
> How could this be possible? I don't know exactly how the "trash bin"
> works (for one thing, I don't use it, I use rm), but if I were
> writing such a thing, I'd simply rename the file to the Trashcan
> directory, and make an entry in a database. Perhaps it was in a
> different disc? That might make sense.
>
> Mike
I'm not sure, but seeing as he also referred to it as a recycle bin, I'm 
sure he was analogizing to our favorite MS OS, in which files larger 
than (probably) 4 gigs are "too big".
-Dan