[SOLVED] XFCE, Trash and ntfs-3g

[witek]

I cannot move files to trash from ntfs partition mounted with ntfs-3g in F15/XFCE. Thunar is unable to find the trash and nautilus is able only to delete permanently. Can you help me to work it out?

[Seve]

From a terminal as root

cd /media

cd your-disc


then see what the output of

ls -a

Do you see a .Trash-500 listed ?

[Jean Pierre]

Nautilus requires the trash (.Trash-500, etc.) to be owned by the user who moves to trash.

With ntfs-3g you have to enable ownership and permissions. The easiest way is to mount with option "permissions". You can also read the manual or http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs...sions/#options

Jean-Pierre

[kazakore]

Originally Posted by Jean Pierre

Nautilus requires the trash (.Trash-500, etc.) to be owned by the user who moves to trash.

Jean-Pierre

Doubt it makes any difference but XFCE's default file manager is Thunar, not Nautilus.

[Jean Pierre]

Doubt it makes any difference but XFCE's default file manager is Thunar, not Nautilus.

Another common requirement (don't know for Thunar), is that the trash has the sticky bit (chmod 1777 <mountpoint>/.Trash-<uid>). Also needs ownership and permissions to be enabled.

Jean-Pierre

[witek]

Alongside Fedora I have Salix installed and there deleting files from ntfs works without tweaks (however in some different manner as files are moved to ~/.local/share/Trash/files). Salix people claim they didn`t tweak anything to achieve it and it should work like that. Maybe there is a bug in Fedora or XFCE4.8?
Anyway, I`ll try to play with ntfs permissions.

[EDIT] Indeed, when I mounted with 'permissions' and gave the full access (0777) to the mountpoint, the trash started to work.
Thanks a lot, Jean Pierre .