Hi.

I have a problem with Dolphin when it comes to sending files to the Trash. If works OK when I delete files that reside in my home partition, but when I delete files in another partition they are moved to $HOME/.local/share/Trash instead of being moved to .Trash- in the root of the partition hosting the files being deleted. This produces the side effect of converting a move operation into a copy operation with unwanted overhead, plus using space in the home partition.

The partitions are encrypted and formatted as ext3. Deleting files with Konqueror from KDE 3.5.10 worked as expected with them.

Any idea what can be wrong? I've seen a bug report that describes a similar problem for remote filesystems, but there was not much feedback for it.

Thanks in advance!

I can confirm this on mandriva, this has been a long standing issue back too maybe even before kde3.5.7 upto now (4.2.2) btw it does work in kubuntu (at least last time I tried it which was a while ago) and always has, maybe they have a patch?

(my bugreport, reported here by mdv maintainer:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159926

mdv bug: https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=38959 )

Just a few more tests.

I installed another file manager (Thunar) and the local trash folder are working as expected. That discards a permissions problems. If I check trash:/ with Dolphin I can't see the files that Thunar put in the local trash folder, only those in the trash that resides in my home.

If I delete the local trash folders and delete a file with Dolphin, a .Trash-$uid directory is created, but not used (files are mover to ~/.local/share/Trash).

I created a new user and the Trash problem is there too.

can you add a comment to the kde bug report?