On Mon, 25 May 2009 09:23:35 -0700 "Michael M. Moore" <[email protected]> dijo:
> On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 18:27 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > > The unanswered question is why emptying the Trash folder would delete > > the contents of ~/.gtk-bookmarks. OK, deleting the Trash probably > > deleted the whole file, which was then regenerated anew the next time I > > opened Nautilus. But why would deleting the Trash delete a hidden file > > in ~/? > > > > Gnome is a mysterious place. > > I can't fathom what happened, but I wonder if it has something to do > with "Trash" moving from ~/.Trash to ~/.local/share/Trash. I'm not sure > when that happened, but I do know it used to be a hidden directory under > ~/ and now it isn't. Maybe upgrading from a previous version of GNOME, > when "Trash" was in its old location, to the current version, with > "Trash" in a different location, confused things. > > I'm also not really clear on when you say "deleting the Trash" you mean > "emptying the Trash" or actually deleting the directory that contains > "Trash" -- and if the latter, that begs the question, which directory > did you delete, the old one (which may have still been in your home > directory) or the new one, or both? By "deleting the trash" I meant opening the Trash folder, seeing that there were 35 GB of unwanted files in it, selecting them all, and deleting them. As far as I know I did not delete the folder itself. Thanks for the information about the change to the location of the Trash folder. I don't know if it is part of the problem, but it's good to know. Another issue is that apparently I misunderstood the function of Trash. I never really used it until recently. I have the option checked in Nautilus to display a Delete that does not go to Trash, and that is what I always use. Therefore, in years of using Ubuntu I never had anything in Trash. But recently I was downloading stuff with Transmission. After the download completed and I had seeded at least twice what I downloaded I used Transmission to delete the file and the torrent. It was Transmission that was moving stuff to the Trash. What I failed to grasp is that files in Trash will not be overwritten if you need the space. I always thought that files in Trash could be automatically deleted if necessary, thus Trash is just for recovery of immediate mistakes. I don't know where I came up with that notion, but apparently it is wrong. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
