From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 44059@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44059: 28.0.50; Trash files cannot be deleted properly if delete-by-moving-to-trash is set
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 14:30:50 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201019113050.GA19325@protected.rcdrun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874kmqlew9.fsf@gnus.org>
* Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> [2020-10-19 12:55]:
> Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:
>
> > then I cannot delete files in Trash, you can see what is happening,
> > files may get a backup in Trash directory, but they do not get deleted,
> > I need to invoke shell command or disable delete-by-moving-to-trash
>
> I'm not sure whether that's a malfeature or not -- if you've told Emacs
> that everything you delete should go to the trash can, then even
> deleting things in the trash can should perhaps go there?
>
> Perhaps a new value to delete-by-moving-to-trash that would mean "delete
> if we're trying to delete in the trash can"?
>
> And... there doesn't seem to be any commands in Emacs for emptying the
> trash can? Shouldn't there be?
I think that is related to Dired and maybe some functions without
Dired.
I have solved the problem by adding in ~/tmp/Trash/.dir-locals.el
;;; Directory Local Variables
;;; For more information see (info "(emacs) Directory Variables")
((dired-mode . ((delete-by-moving-to-trash . nil))))
In my opinion, if the delete-by-moving-to-trash is true, that file
should be made there read-only and user should be informed in Info
manual or in the setting of that variable including setting of
variable for trash location.
Practical error case is that I was recording screen and deleting
various videos, screen recording was taking so much space, I lost all
space on hard disk. And I could not delete things inside of the
Trash. It was emergency already to do something, my solution was
above.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-19 11:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-18 9:27 bug#44059: 28.0.50; Trash files cannot be deleted properly if delete-by-moving-to-trash is set Jean Louis
[not found] ` <handler.44059.B.16030132896481.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2020-10-18 9:32 ` bug#44059: Acknowledgement (28.0.50; Trash files cannot be deleted properly if delete-by-moving-to-trash is set) Jean Louis
2020-10-19 9:54 ` bug#44059: 28.0.50; Trash files cannot be deleted properly if delete-by-moving-to-trash is set Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-19 11:30 ` Jean Louis [this message]
2022-02-12 8:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-19 14:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-19 15:13 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-26 16:03 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-26 19:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-28 11:42 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-28 15:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-28 17:39 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-26 20:07 ` Michael Albinus
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