Isn't all this in support of "undelete" capability? If your GUI does not have "empty trash" capability (at least with the USB part) that seems to me to be the fundamental problem.
-Denis On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 7:46 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 21:26:23 -0500 > Brian Stanaland <[email protected]> dijo: > > >What happens if you delete them from the command line? > > First I tried David's suggestion to delete the *.trashinfo files in the > info folder from the command line. That worked. > > Then I tried deleting the entire .Trashinfo-1000 folder from the > command line, and that also worked. I didn't need su for either > operation. > > Next I copied a file to the drive and then deleted it. Upon deletion a > new .Trashinfo-1000 folder was created, so I'm back where I started > from. Deleting the .Trash-1000 folder is a very temporary solution, > plus it can only be done from the command line. > > I am more concerned with the reasoning behind this behavior. I recall a > long time ago an irate employee wrote a scathing letter to her boss in > MS Word, but then thought better of it and deleted the bad stuff before > sending it. Unknown to her (or most of the rest of the world), MS Word > stored all of her deletions in the file, so the boss could still find > them. She got canned and MS caught hell in the media. I'm not moving > evil stuff with the drive, but it disturbs me that a hidden record is > created which the user can only delete from the command line. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
