Public bug reported:
I have found that since the indicator of file operations was replaced
with the notification coming from the right of the top bar rather than a
popup window, that I am unable to delete large folders from Trash.
Placing them in Trash sometimes means that other items (even really
small ones) can't be deleted until the large folders have been moved
from Trash to another location, though on other occasions all, or at
least half, of the other files will be seemingly successfully deleted,
though not the large folder(s).
For instance I have a folder with many sub-folders, which each have many
sub-sub-folders etc and lots of files... The folder's file size is about
1.7GB. I tried creating a tar of the file which was 1.8GB, I moved that
into Trash and it was deleted within about a second with no trouble at
all so it seems only to be folders.
I looked at the properties for a large folder I placed in Trash by
itself, and even though I had clicked the Empty Trash button many times
now, it was staying at the same size.
I find that the indicator which is meant to be indicating how it's doing
to me is always just stuck at "Preparing", even when it actually deletes
stuff it only ever really shows that so is not very useful.
I am running Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 with GNOME 3.20, but I believe this was
also present in 3.18, though not to such a bad degree (pressing the
Empty Trash button many times in some cases eventually worked on 3.18,
but on 3.20 I can't seem to do anything to delete the folder without
first splitting it up). I have only tested this in Nautilus, I have not
yet tested if it works better in a different file manager, I will
comment when I have tested it with a different file manager.
** Affects: ubuntu-gnome
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
Unable to delete large folders in Trash
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