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What people seems to not understand it's that it's counter-intuitive to
pretend that a user must be aware of the destination of it's removed
files and moreover that it doesn't free its key space as expected.

When you delete files, there are two reasons: the file is useless + you
don't have enough storage. This is particulary true on removable storage
which have fewer space than HDD.

So, no, getting a trash on the key is not a solution, and asking for
user to empty their unknown trash neither.

We need to start from the real need of a trash. It is for give the user
the ability to undo its deletion. Do this undo must really last when the
key is removed? Perhaps it depends on the size of the removable storage:
a removable HDD is more expected to have a trash than a small flash key.

The only problem in fact from the start of this bugreport is that we
don't even have the choice to have or not to have a trash folder on our
media. This choice has been made a day and keep plagging everyday use of
number of users without any settings to prevent this behavior (system
wide or media specific setting).

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/12893

Title:
  Shouldn't put .Trash-$USER on removable devices

Status in Nautilus:
  Fix Released
Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in Baltix GNU/Linux:
  New
Status in “nautilus” package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  I'm sick and tired of finding that my digital camera card is full after deleting
  all the pictures, and my iAudio still plays deleted files.

  This is because instead of deleting files from removal devices, Nautilus creates
  a .Trash-$USER directory and moves the files into there.

  Can we please make the default be to _not_ do this?  It makes (some) sense for
  the main drive, but removable ones tend to be "temporary" storage.  A better
  alternative would be to remove the files from the removable device and into the
  user's home directory .Trash

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138058:
  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138058

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