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[Chris Coulson <chrisccoulson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 01:45 +0800, Sam Spilsbury wrote:
> Hi everyone
> 
> Just thought of an annoying quirk that could either be papercutted or
> considered by design - the default nautilus behavior is to always move
> stuff to a "trash" folder and not actually delete it unless you empty
> the trash. However for external volumes like USB sticks and memory
> cards (and even external hard drives) this does not make sense, since
> usually the reason for deleting files is because you have backed up
> the "temporary" storage (photos, videos, files, etc) and now you need
> to delete the redundant copy to make more space on the volume. In this
> case there should always be a "delete" option in nautilus to delete
> the files right away.
> 
> In my opinion the current behavior doesn't make all that much sense to
> me - the expectation is that the user is to empty the trash to
> permanently delete stored files, but a "persistent" trash doesn't make
> sense with the paradigm of removable storage. At least my expectation
> always seems to be that each device has it's own trash and must be
> emptied separately. It would also seem like an unintended consequence
> that if I emptied the "persistent" trash on my machine it would also
> empty the trash on each device - there is no granularity or
> predictability of what is going to happen.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Sam
> 

Hi,

This sounds a bit like https://launchpad.net/bugs/12893

Cheers
Chris

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