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Bug 693752 - Trash folder always appears to be empty
Trash folder always appears to be empty
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: gvfs
Classification: Core
Component: trash backend
1.12.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Allison Karlitskaya (desrt)
gvfs-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-02-14 00:43 UTC by Andrew Schulman
Modified: 2014-05-28 21:09 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
~/.local/share/Trash/files (50.93 KB, image/png)
2013-02-14 00:43 UTC, Andrew Schulman 		Details
Trash folder (64.84 KB, image/png)
2013-02-14 00:43 UTC, Andrew Schulman 		Details

Description Andrew Schulman 2013-02-14 00:43:24 UTC 
Created attachment 235971 [details]
~/.local/share/Trash/files

In Nautilus, I right-click on a file or directory and choose "Move to Trash". The file is removed from its folder, and moved into ~/.local/share/Trash/files (screenshot). But, the Trash folder in Nautilus always shows up empty (screenshot).

Note that I originally reported this bug to Ubuntu (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1119908).  Later, I logged out and logged back in again, and the problem had gone away.
Comment 1 Andrew Schulman 2013-02-14 00:43:57 UTC 
Created attachment 235972 [details]
Trash folder
Comment 2 Cosimo Cecchi 2013-03-19 08:26:44 UTC 
-> gvfs

Sounds like there was a temporary problem with the gvfs trash backend; can you reproduce this? What version of gvfs are you using?
Comment 3 Andrew Schulman 2013-03-19 11:31:00 UTC 
gvfs is 1.12.1-0ubuntu1.1.  No, I haven't been able to reproduce it since my original report.

I'm not familiar with gvfs.  So if this problem recurs, should I try to restart gvfsd?  Which I guess logging out and logging back in does.

Thanks, Andrew
Comment 4 Cosimo Cecchi 2013-03-19 11:41:25 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> gvfs is 1.12.1-0ubuntu1.1.  No, I haven't been able to reproduce it since my
> original report.
> 
> I'm not familiar with gvfs.  So if this problem recurs, should I try to restart
> gvfsd?  Which I guess logging out and logging back in does.

Yeah; should it occur again, the session log (typically ~/.xsession-errors or ~/.cache/gdm/session.log if you're not running journald, but I am not sure if Ubuntu uses the same location) might have some related useful information for debugging.
Comment 5 Ross Lagerwall 2014-05-28 21:09:14 UTC 
Thanks for the report. Please reopen if it happens again or you can provide more details on how to reproduce it.