digikam won't let me delete files - "could not rename file ..."

[Menachem Shapiro]

B"H
On 12/11/06, Menachem Shapiro <menachem.shapiro at gmail.com> wrote:
> B"H
> Hello
>
> I installed digikam (as well as a bunch of related packages) to my
> computer running Ubuntu Edgy.
>
> When I try to delete a file, I get an error saying "could not rename
> file FILENAME" (where FILENAME is the name of the file). By default
> the permissions for the file are 644, but even changing them to 777
> made no difference.
>

I was able to solve the problems by following this tip in KDE's bug
tracking system for digicam:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123120

I guess KDE programs expect to find the trash in ~/Desktop/Trash while
Ubuntu has the trash in ~/.Trash.

Menachem