[xubuntu-users] Change How a File Deletes

Florian Coste fcoste21 at gmail.com
Sat Apr 25 17:14:41 UTC 2015


I always wondering what it is exactly the trash directory. You say that
it's an hidden directory. Can you tell me what is the correct .trash
directory, please ?

Thank you.

2015-04-24 20:38 GMT+02:00 Bruno Benitez <gridcube at gmail.com>:

> if the partition in which you are trying to delete the files is not one of
> the default linux formats (ext4 for example) it might not have the correct
> .trash directory where to send the files, so it might not have the "send to
> trash" option, see if the option is available on your home dir, it should.
>
> 2015-04-24 15:10 GMT-03:00 Lee Gold <leegold at operamail.com>:
>
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015, at 11:35 PM, Petter Adsen wrote:
>> > On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 23:26:29 -0700
>> > Lee Gold <leegold at operamail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > Using Xubuntu 14.04.  When I right click a file and select delete it
>> > > permanently deletes the file. I want it to go into the trash and not
>> > > be permanently deleted. If I press shift and delete - then yes
>> > > permanently delete it, but just delete should put it into the trash
>> > > bin.
>> > >
>> > > How to change this to what I want?
>> >
>> > If you are talking about thunar, there should be two menu entries -
>> > "Move to Trash" and "Delete".
>> >
>> > Petter
>> >
>> I'm saying if you right click a file on the desktop and select delete...
>>
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