Hi NMGLUG folks,

Thanks again.

Ted: your ideas make sense.

Mark: I tried your suggestions. I'll explain better what I wrote on 22 Oct. Ted explained it well.

When this feature was "working right", when I deleted a file from the Desktop folder, the filename disappeared from Desktop and the filename appeared in Trash/files and Trash/info. To resonate with Ted, that functionality seems to match the mv command with the addition of also creating a file in Trash/info, presumably that file having nothing but the path which the file was moved from.

That functionality seems to have stopped now in my OS. When I delete a file now, it seems to match the rm command.

I used the find command in several scenarios with some files which I deleted, some files I moved, etc. The results matched what I wrote above. Using sudo gave the same results. Rebooting gave the same results.

Any ideas about how to regain the original functionality, so that files deleted using GUI will be moved to Trash?

LeRoy

There is something glorious birthing within all of us. (New for 2021)

I am the Love of God, no matter what.
LeRoy Diener
213-LEROYIZ
213-537-6949
www.leroydiener.com/

On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 9:49 PM Ted Pomeroy <ted.pome@gmail.com> wrote:

LeRoy & NMGLUGers, Is there, perhaps, a difference between "Delete" and "Move to Trash" in the GUI? "Delete" seems to act like 'rm' in my system. "Move to Trash" acts like 'mv ./someFile.txt ~/.local/share/Trash/files someFile.txt' That is: from any of my directories below my home folder "Move to Trash" moves a file to my ~/.local/share/Trash/files/ sub-directory. However, I am using Xubuntu, but consider that the GUI in most cases operates the same way and obscure the command that is actually executed. I don't know if this will be helpful.
Thank you, Ted P

On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 5:39 PM Mark Galassi <mark@galassi.org> wrote:

Make sure you have fully logged out, or maybe even rebooted, since some processes in your desktop might keep an open file descriptor on a directory (unlikely but possible), so you want to restart that.

I don't understand at all what you are saying; it appears form your words that files both appear and don't appear. But in any case, the graphical interface is not the final arbiter of whether files are around or not. After your reboot (if you had not yet done that), do a:

1. Make a file called junk_special_name.txt with some junk in it.

2. Delete it the way you are saying, when you say you cannot then find it.

3. Run "find ~ -name junk_special_name.txt" at the shell and see what comes up. You can also try the very unlikely to be relevant "sudo find /tmp/ -name junk_special_name.txt"
_______________________________________________
nmglug mailing list
nmglug@lists.nmglug.org
http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org

_______________________________________________
nmglug mailing list
nmglug@lists.nmglug.org
http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org