[PLUG] I hate Nautilus

[John Jason Jordan]

On Mon, 25 May 2009 09:23:35 -0700
"Michael M. Moore" <michael at writemoore.net> dijo:

> On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 18:27 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > 
> > The unanswered question is why emptying the Trash folder would delete
> > the contents of ~/.gtk-bookmarks. OK, deleting the Trash probably
> > deleted the whole file, which was then regenerated anew the next time I
> > opened Nautilus. But why would deleting the Trash delete a hidden file
> > in ~/?
> > 
> > Gnome is a mysterious place.
> 
> I can't fathom what happened, but I wonder if it has something to do
> with "Trash" moving from ~/.Trash to ~/.local/share/Trash.  I'm not sure
> when that happened, but I do know it used to be a hidden directory under
> ~/ and now it isn't.  Maybe upgrading from a previous version of GNOME,
> when "Trash" was in its old location, to the current version, with
> "Trash" in a different location, confused things.
> 
> I'm also not really clear on when you say "deleting the Trash" you mean
> "emptying the Trash" or actually deleting the directory that contains
> "Trash"  -- and if the latter, that begs the question, which directory
> did you delete, the old one (which may have still been in your home
> directory) or the new one, or both?

By "deleting the trash" I meant opening the Trash folder, seeing that
there were 35 GB of unwanted files in it, selecting them all, and
deleting them. As far as I know I did not delete the folder itself.

Thanks for the information about the change to the location of the
Trash folder. I don't know if it is part of the problem, but it's good
to know.

Another issue is that apparently I misunderstood the function of Trash.
I never really used it until recently. I have the option checked in
Nautilus to display a Delete that does not go to Trash, and that is
what I always use. Therefore, in years of using Ubuntu I never had
anything in Trash. But recently I was downloading stuff with
Transmission. After the download completed and I had seeded at least
twice what I downloaded I used Transmission to delete the file and the
torrent. It was Transmission that was moving stuff to the Trash.

What I failed to grasp is that files in Trash will not be overwritten
if you need the space. I always thought that files in Trash could be
automatically deleted if necessary, thus Trash is just for recovery of
immediate mistakes. I don't know where I came up with that notion, but
apparently it is wrong.