Trash in FC5 not working?

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 28 March 2006 11:04, Zubin Bharucha wrote:
> Perhaps I'm stupid but perhaps there's a problem with Gnome in FC5. I'm
> wondering if anyone else has noticed this problem.
> 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. The trash can
> remained empty and obviously "empty trash" remained unhighlighted. So
> what's the deal? Am I doing something wrong? Have I not selected some
> option? I also tried dragging a file to the trash and it disappeared
> too. Shouldn't something as basic as the trashcan work straight out of
> install?
> Hit back with replies if you've noticed this problem. It might be a
> serious problem for some people. Luckily none of the files I deleted
> were of any great importance.
> -Zubin

Fwd: Questions After FC4->FC5: Trash, nVidia Video Driver, Mono Packages
 Date: Sat Mar 25 20:46:47 2006
 From: "charles f. zeitler" <cfzeitler at yahoo.com>
 To: fedora-list <fedora-list at redhat.com>
......
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.

Anne
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