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Adonis K. Kakoulidis
Asked: 2012-08-21 17:45:36 +0800 CST

/var/www owned by my user, cant send files to trash

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I changed ownership of /var/www to username:username since im using it only for development but when i try to delete something it wont send the files to the trash but asks me to permanently delete them.

apache2

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  1. Best Answer

    PARTIAL SOLUTION

    I tested here, and had the same problem.

    You need to create a .Trash-1000(*) in the highest folder in this filesystem. In my case, it was /

    so I ran sudo mkdir /.Trash-1000 and chown user:user /.Trash-1000. Nautilus no longer complains, and it sends the files to the Trash folder.

    However ... They dont show up in my trash (via GUI). I just know they are there because I went and checked

    (*) actually, its .Trash-UID , where the UID can be found using the command id

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