Trash in FC5 not working?

[Zubin Bharucha]

Jacques B. wrote:
> On 3/28/06, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>   
>> 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
>>>       
> Just tried it and it goes to the trash no problem on my system.  Was
> the file too big for the recycle bin perhaps?
>   
The file was a 37kb jpg.
> Also if you go under System, Preferences, File Management and then
> select the "Behavior" tab you will note two options under Trash.  One
> being "Ask before emptying the Trash or deleting files" (checked off
> on mine, so I suspect the default as I haven't changed it) and the
> second being "Include a Delete command that bypasses Trash" (not
> checked on mine so I suspect not checked by default).  Check and see
> if you have that option set. 
My behavior settings are exactly like yours are.
>  If so when right clicking on a file you
> will see the option to "send to trash" or "delete".  The "delete"
> option will notify you that it is not going to Trash.  However if you
> delete from the terminal shell using the rm command, in testing I've
> noticed that it does not go to Trash at all (not even the .Trash -
> that only happens when it also goes to the GUI Trash bin at least on
> my system).
>   
I didn't do rm -rf or anything like that. I simply hit "delete" as I 
wanted it to sit in the trashcan until I felt like recovering it. As per 
the previous email, I did check ~/.Trash and all my deleted files were 
there. However, i am still perplexed as to why they don't show up in my 
trashcan.
> Now if that file you deleted is very important, it can most likely
> still be recovered.  But you will want to avoid any further activity
> on the system to avoid having the data overwritten before you have a
> chance to recover it.  There are a number of ways you can try and
> recover it.  I'll refrain from going there unless you are seeking to
> go there (plus I'd have to pull out some of my books to refresh my
> memory on some of the techniques).
>
>   
Thanks, but the files were extremely unimportant and no problems were 
caused. I do know of these tools and they are excellent! They helped my 
recover a 250Gb HDD that others had termed as "beyond repair" once.
> Jacques B.
>   
Zubin B.