>2011/5/15 Robin van Leeuwen <robinvanleeu...@gmail.com>:
> 2011/4/17 rshadow <371...@bugs.launchpad.net>:
>> Create .Trash directory is not fix the problem. I think we need `rm -fr`
>> for <Shift+Delete>.
>
> Indeed, creating a .Trash directory is not the answer. Nautilus gives
> the option when i try to delete:
>
> "Can't move to trash, do you want to skip op delete"
>
> When i click delete, it deletes regular files just fine and empty
> directories are also deleted fine.
> Except non-empty directoties, those give the error "Permission
> denied", but since i clicked "delete"
> it should bypass the .Trash directory alltogether.
>
> I don't think "rm -rf" is the answer either.
> Because this isn't exactly the error which you'd expect when  delete
> when "rm -rf" would be the answer.
>
> On a local filesystem:
>
> rvl@home:~$ mkdir d
> rvl@home:~$ touch d/f
> rvl@home:~$ rm d
> rm: cannot remove `d': Is a directory
> rvl@home:~$ rmdir d
> rmdir: failed to remove `d': Directory not empty
>
> So something tells me that "rm -rf" won't work either, (and i  guess
> that rm -rf is already used)
>
> man rm:
>      -f, --force
>              ignore nonexistent files, never prompt
>
> So the -f won't fix a permission problem.
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>


This is all on natty (11.04) by the way


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  fail to delete directory over sshfs with nautilus

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