Reported on https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/853
** Summary changed:
- Protected files hidden by Trash
+ Emptying the trash can lead to have files still on disk in expunged
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Triaged
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/422012
Title:
Emptying the trash can lead to have files still on disk in expunged
Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
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!
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