Cant Move Files To Trash

**opticyclic** · July 1st, 2010

I just moved my data in my home directory to a different ext4 partition.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9532464

Now when I try to delete any files from those directories I get the message:
"Cannot move file to trash, do you want to delete it immediately"

Why is that and how do I fix it?

**ubunterooster** · July 1st, 2010

When you delete a file on an ext file system besides /home, it can not send it to trash because there is no trash cam for it. So it asks if you want to permanently delete it.

**opticyclic** · July 1st, 2010

OK. Great.
So how do I create a trash can?

When I mount my NTFS drive I don't get this message.
When I show hidden files the NTFS drive has a .Trash-1000 folder, which I guess is the trash can.

Do I have to modify something in fstab to enable this feature?

**nishant.singh28** · July 1st, 2010

Originally Posted by ubunterooster

When you delete a file on an ext file system besides /home, it can not send it to trash because there is no trash cam for it. So it asks if you want to permanently delete it.

Not true...I have 2 ext4 partitions besides home and / and I have Trash in all of them.

**arrange** · July 1st, 2010

Can you try removing a file from the command line? Please provide the output too.

Code:

touch ~/temp.file
gvfs-trash ~/temp.file

(will create a temporary file in your home directory and then try to move it to trash)

**opticyclic** · July 2nd, 2010

If I run those commands in my home directory the file gets sent to the Trash.

However, if I try in the sub-directories (the ones that are symlinked to another ext4 partition) I get the following error:

Code:

Error trashing file: Unable to find or create trash directory

It seems like I need to create a Trash directory in that other partition, but I don't know how to do that.

**opticyclic** · July 2nd, 2010

A bit of searching found the answer

I changed my fstab entry

Code:

sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.20100701
gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

Code:

# /home was on /dev/sda8 during installation. moved it back to sda8 and put in a data partition
UUID=9893d323-5290-4aba-aa72-7c79ebd4e14a /media/data           ext4    defaults,uid=1000        0       2

I then remounted it

Code:

sudo umount /dev/sda8
sudo mount -a

Then created the magic folder for the trash and chown'd it

Code:

cd /media/data/
sudo mkdir .Trash-1000
sudo chown -R myUser:myUser .Trash-1000

Magic

**Rodu** · July 10th, 2010

Originally Posted by opticyclic

A bit of searching found the answer

I changed my fstab entry

Code:

sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.20100701
gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

Code:

# /home was on /dev/sda8 during installation. moved it back to sda8 and put in a data partition
UUID=9893d323-5290-4aba-aa72-7c79ebd4e14a /media/data           ext4    defaults,uid=1000        0       2

I then remounted it

Code:

sudo umount /dev/sda8
sudo mount -a

Then created the magic folder for the trash and chown'd it

Code:

cd /media/data/
sudo mkdir .Trash-1000
sudo chown -R myUser:myUser .Trash-1000

Magic

On a fresh install of 10.04, this worked for me as well but, I had to put ',user' instead of ',uid=1000' to mount the volume.
By putting ,uid=1000 it did not let me mount it complaining for bad options...

Putting ,user and creating the .Trash-1000 on the volume it went ok.

Now just to understand, as I am the only user on this machine that solution is fine. What if on the machine there would be more users? A .Trash-... for each user should be created?

thanks