Additionally and I don't know how pertinent this is, I checked my paths in the kde control center (by searching the word 'trash' and there is no path for trash. Nor do i see a way to add a path in the dialog. > On Wednesday 20 April 2005 04:27 pm, Alexander Hansen wrote: > Sorry I responded before I got this post Alexander. I corrected your > command (you left out the '.' before local and checked the webpost as > well, which had the period. I ran: > [Brian-OKeefes-Computer:~/.local/share] brianoke% mkdir -p > ~/.local/share/Trash > [Brian-OKeefes-Computer:~/.local/share] brianoke% ls > Trash applications > > so now there's trash but when I try to move an item to trash I still get > the error 'can't create /sw/share/Trash'. How do I get the trash "action" > to locate the directory @ '~/.local/share/Trash'? > > Thanks again > Brian > > > On Apr 20, 2005, at 5:41 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > > > On Apr 20, 2005, at 2:13 PM, Brian O'Keefe wrote: > > >> No I'm just logged in as normal. I did log into a tsch shell as > > >> root when I attempted the planner install days ago but I have > > >> logged out and rebooted since then so I can't imagine that has any > > >> bearing. See: "[Brian-OKeefes-Computer:~] brianoke% whoami > > >> brianokeefe" > > >> As to the "something" part of your question I wouldn't know what > > >> that might refer to. I can delete or trash in gnome or aqua so.... > > >> thanks for the quick response! > > >> Brian > > >> On Apr 20, 2005, at 11:59 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: > > > > > > Now that I've tried it myself (I usually just delete files without > > > trashing them) I get the same behavior. I tried manually running > > > "sudo mkdir /sw/share/Trash" but that didn't help. > > > > > > Maintainer cc'ed (though he's on vacation). > > > > > > > > > --AH > > > > And the answer is at > > > > http://paste.lisp.org/display/7596 > > > > If you run "mkdir -p ~/local/share/Trash" that will give you a > > working KDE trash. > > > > >>> On Apr 20, 2005, at 1:56 PM, Brian O'Keefe wrote: > > >>>> Hello, > > >>>> I have updated kde to 3.4 and noticed that I have no trash file. > > >>>> When I > > >>>> try to move something to trash I get a message that "could not > > >>>> make the > > >>>> file /sw/share/Trash". Does anyone know what to do with this so > > >>>> that I > > >>>> can delete files in kde from the desktop or the file manager? > > >>>> > > >>>> Many thanks, > > >>>> brian > > >>> > > >>> That's odd--are you running as root or something? > > >>> -- > > >>> Alexander Hansen > > >>> Fink Documentarian > > >>> [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment > > >>> http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/
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