Erroneous trash entry with gvfs [was: Re: Is it a bug?]

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sun Jul 20 17:02:04 UTC 2008


On 07/20/2008 12:41 AM, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 17:20 +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:
>> $ ls ~/.local/share/Trash/
>> files  info
> 
> Thanks for the confirmation. Now I only need to find out how to delete a
> wrong cache entry for a file that does not exist anymore, but which is
> still shown in Trash, and whose trash entry cannot be deleted by
> emptying the trash
> 
> With gnome-vfs, this could be done by
> deleting /home/<user>/.gnome/gnome-vfs/.trash_entry_cache. There was a
> bug in Launchpad for it. Now it still seems to happen, but the gnome-vfs
> file is gone, and I can't find the substitute in gvfs.
> 
> Any help appreciated
> 
> 

I found entries in:
/home/<user>/.local/share/Trash/info
You might check there and see if there are files. They are plain text
files and look something like this:

[Trash Info]
Path=/home/gg-laptop/tempdir/Protractor1GG2Example.pdf
DeletionDate=2008-07-20T09:19:26







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