On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Shaun McCance <sha...@gnome.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 12:14 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Mackenzie Morgan <maco...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 11:33 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> Anyway, I'd very much like to clean up my trash can so whether there's >> >> any interest in the rest of this where are the files kept so that I >> >> can go there in a terminal and erase them by hand. >> > >> > ~/.local/share/Trash in new versions of GNOME. In older ones ~/.Trash >> > >> > -- >> > Mackenzie Morgan >> > http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com >> > apt-get moo >> > >> >> Thanks. Strange place to put it but it's there, thanks. >> >> Now, I see both a files and an info directory. I guess I have to clean >> them both up by hand as root? >> >> I'm not understanding how Gnome allowed me to move the files to trash >> but won't let me move them out of trash. Or am I missing some sort of >> Undelete function that I should be seeing but for some reason am not? > > It's an unfortunate side effect of how permissions work on > Unix-like systems. When you move folder X from foo to bar, > all that happens is: > > 1) foo is changed to no longer point to X > 2) bar is changed to point to X > > The only things that are modified are foo and bar. Files > and directories inside X are never touched, modified, or > even looked at. > > Since trashing a folder just involved moving that folder, > it's entirely possible to trash stuff that you don't have > permissions to delete. It sucks, but recursively scanning > the directory to be trashed can be expensive. Right now, > trashing is a constant-time operation. > > -- > Shaun
OK, thanks. That makes perfect sense, even if it isn't perfectly sensible! ;-) So as root I can safely delete the root-owned stuff in my user's trash directory and I won't cause problems for Gnome? It won't get confused if files suddenly disappear? - Mark _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
