On 3/28/06, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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? 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. 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). 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). Jacques B.
