I am having a strange bug with trash.
If I try to delete a file in trash by selecting it and pressing the delete key, I get the error “Changing the attributes of files is not supported with protocol trash”
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If I select a folder in trash and press the delete key, I get the error “Creating folders is not supported with protocol trash”
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However, if I shift+delete or just simply right click and select delete from the context menu, then I can delete either normally from trash.
What gives? I tried looking up the errors but found nothing helpful.
Odd. This doesn’t seem like an issue many users are having, or there’d be more people asking about it online. Looking up the first error only brings up that KDE bug report.
Del sends files to the trash folder. You cannot send a file to the trash folder when it’s already in there.
Shift+Del on the other hand deletes files, i.e. removes their filename from the containing directory, and unless the file was a hard-link, it’ll then also be gone from the filesystem.
Same thing here. Using Manjaro for about 8 years. I always double check the files in the Trash because I occasionally send files there by accident. I open the trash folder and do a quick scan and then just click “Alt+A” and delete. Never once had this error - it started after the last update.
IMHO the system should “understand” that deleting files from the trash doesn’t mean you want to move them to the trash but delete them forever.
I think that should be normal behavior as it always has been.