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Bug 339596 - Empty Trash has no effect on deleted files with incorrect permissions set
Empty Trash has no effect on deleted files with incorrect permissions set
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 108307
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Trash
2.12.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
: 341825 378615 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-04-24 16:32 UTC by David Marrs
Modified: 2007-05-24 18:24 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.11/2.12



Description David Marrs 2006-04-24 16:32:31 UTC
Please describe the problem:
I had a number of files and folders in trash. One of the folders was write
protected. Right clicking the waste basket and selecting "empty trash" silently
failed to empty the bin: it got stuck at the first write-protected file and
aborted without informing me of the problem.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Place a read-only file or directory in the trash icon on the desktop
2. right click the trash icon and select "empty trash"
3. Apart from the trash icon failing to empty, no feedback is given that the
file(s) failed to delete.


Actual results:


Expected results:
I would expect right clicking the trash icon and selecting "empty trash" to
produce the same result as navigating to the waste basket via nautilus and
selecting File->Empty Wastebasket. While here, I am given the warning that the
files failed to delete because I had insufficient privalages. It would be useful
to have the same behaviour reproduced on right click of the waste basket icon on
the desktop.

Does this happen every time?


Other information:
While I'm on the subject, depending on which icon I'm looking at, it seems to be
called either "trash" or "waste basket". Perhaps it would be better to stick to
one name or the other, for the sake of consistency.
Comment 1 Christian Neumair 2006-06-18 17:23:21 UTC
*** Bug 341825 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Christian Neumair 2006-06-18 17:40:42 UTC
Thanks for your bug report!

> While I'm on the subject, depending on which icon I'm looking at, it seems to
be called either "trash" or "waste basket".

You're probably using a UK-localized version. This hints at incomplete translations. CCing David Lodge <dave@cirt.net> since he is the last translator.
Comment 3 Christian Kirbach 2007-01-19 23:22:45 UTC
similar to Bug 354394
Comment 4 Duncan Lithgow 2007-03-08 20:36:00 UTC
*** Bug 378615 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Federico Mena Quintero 2007-05-24 18:24:24 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 108307 ***