On 22 Nov 22:42, Ted Harding wrote:
On 22-Nov-08 20:50:51, Tim Green wrote:
2008/11/22 Ted Harding Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk:
And: NO, I did not find any of the files I "Moved to Wastebasket" from the USB stick where I would have expcted to, namely at the top level of Wastebasket (i.e. Trash).
Any ideas, comments?
Your USB stick will have its own Trash. I discovered this when I thought I had made some space on a stick by 'deleting' all the files, but they were all hiding in Trash. This behaviour will confuse Windows users who are used to only real hard disks having recycling bins.
Tim.
Thanks, Tim! That solves that part of the puzzle. (I hadn't spotted it because that trash-bin is /media/usbdisk/.Trash-ted, so it didn't show up by default until I selected "View all files"). Those files now deleted from .Trash-ted, though I've left the directory in place since I'll need it in the future.
Now for my other (and main) query: How do I *harmlessly* remove my folders Downloads and "Ted's Downloads" from the main trash-bin (/home/test/.Trash)?
I want them out of that .Trash, but I *do* want to keep them where they properly are: /home/ted/Downloads and /home/ted/Ted's" "Downloads -> /home/ted/Downloads
If I 'cd' into /home/ted/.Trash and then do 'rm *', will I remove the true directories, or would I simply delete some symbolic links, leaving the real ones in place (though when I do 'ls -l /home/ted/.Trash' they don't show up as symbolic links)?
The stuff in Trash is real files, what happens is that when you delete things rather than them actually being deleted in effect a rename is performed (actually, IIRC, what happens is a hardlink is created then the origional file deleted). So, removing from Trash, would, in theory at least, remove them entirely from the disk.
Cheers,