As far as I understand (unfortunately, I can't find any documentation on this) files that are deleted from the trash are first moved to "expunged" (because moving files is fast), and then are slowly deleted from "expunged" (slowly because deleting a lot of files takes time and doing it too fast could slow down the whole computer).
This means that having files in "expunged" is not necessarily a problem, as long as these files get deleted over time. If there are files in "expunged" that do not vanish over time, the output from the following command could probably help the maintainers in figuring this bug out: LANG=C ls -l ~/.local/share/Trash/expunged -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/422012 Title: Protected files hidden by Trash Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “thunar” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: nautilus When moving files to the Trash which are belong to another user and you don't have access to, nautilus moves the files into a folder ~/.local/share/Trash/expunged. The problem is that there is no warning that this is happening and the location of the files is far from obvious. I only discovered the folder by using disk analyser and finding that there was a massive folder in ~/.local/share/Trash/expunged. It transpired after deleting the offending files that there had been some 70Gb worth of files!!! Would it not make far more sense from a function point of view to move the files into the Trash as per normal but just fail to empty them? At least you would be able to see them and know that you needed to do something! To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/422012/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
