GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 76050
Trash breaks if the home directory is a symlink
Last modified: 2005-01-22 18:09:43 UTC
When setting up the home directory as a symlink to a directory, the trash breaks. Behavior: - When dragging an item to the trash, nothing happens. - When right clicking a file and choosing Move To Trash, a dialog pops up saying that the file couldn't be moved to the trash. The dialog also asks if the file should be deleted. Tested only Mandrake 8.2.
where are you setting the home directory to a symlink? are you using the navigation preference?
My /home partition is encrypted and I wanted to create one user for whom her home directory wouldn't be encrypted, so that she wouldn't have to enter the password when booting up the computer (Mandrake skips mounting encrypted partitions if you don't enter anything within 15 seconds). To do this I create a symlink from both the root's partition /home/user and from the encrypted partition. The correct change would of course be to change the entry in /etc/passwd but I figured I would break less if I create a symlink (like applications that store filenames for whatever purpose).
Is this still the case with GNOME2 nautilus? I admit I'm not quite willing to set up a symlinked home directory to test :)
Could this be related to that whole is_local issue???
I can confirm this with nautilus 2.2
2.3 uses the $HOME/Desktop directory, so it would be nice to know if this is still a problem with that.
I'm able to get a problem deleting a file in Nautilus 2.6.0 There's three ways to delete a file after selecting it: hit the delete key, right click and select "move to trash", or drag and drop the file on the trash. I can touch two files ~/test and ~/Desktop/test and get different behaviors for the three delete actions. The ~/Desktop/test delete works for "right click" and "drag and drop" but does nothing for the delete key. The ~/test delete bring up the "Can't move to Trash" dialog window discussed above.
works fine (drag and drop, context menu and keyboard keybinding) here with nautilus 2.9.2, bug closed. Feel free to reopen if you get the issue with the new versions