Trash in FC5 not working?

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Tue Mar 28 14:49:06 UTC 2006


Zubin Bharucha:
>> The other day, I hit delete on a file. In FC4, this would send it
>> straight to the trashcan and it would stay there until I clicked "empty
>> trash" or until I recovered/restored it. However, here, it just
>> disappeared like as if I'd permanently deleted it.


Anne Wilson forwarded from charles f. zeitler:
> files dragged onto the trashcan,
> or "sent to trash" do not show up there,
> but can be found in ~/.Trash,
> whence they can be removed ( rm )
> or recovered.

On a friend's FC5 box, the trashcan appears to be working as expected
(hit delete, and the files go there; or drag them there and they're
there).  Sound's like something's variable between different owners PCs.

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