[SOLVED] Deteting file takes a lot of time

[mohittomar13]

Hi

It seems that the right click move to trash is literally moving the files to trash folder instead of changing the file inode. If I use the rm command on the terminal then it works fast (as it should be working) but if I delete the file using the GUI it takes a lot of time and at the end in the notification it shows "Moving files completed". Is there a fix for this??

Thanks in advance.

[jglen490]

Both are doing exactly what they were designed to do. There is a "complete remove" GUI option, which I believe shows up in the right click menu. Or you can highlight the file and enter "shift-del" to by-pass the Trashcan.

[vinnywright]

Or you can highlight the file and enter "shift-del" to by-pass the Trashcan.

+1 , just be sure you have delete conformations turned on in "Dolphin>settings>configure dolphin>General>conformations" so you get asked if "this/these" are what you want to permanently delete.

or you may accidentally delete something else that was highlighted .

VINNY

[jlittle]

Both are doing exactly what they were designed to do.

I don't think that addresses the OP's issue, which is why the move to trash wasn't just a link and unlink, as would be done by the mv command if the trash folder is on the same file system. I've found trash folders in lots of places in the past.

So, in this case, is the trash folder on the same file system, f. ex. /home, as the file was before it was trashed?

[jlittle]

mohittomar13: Perhaps you've encountered the issue discussed in this AskUbuntu post. You've trashed a file on another file system, and it's been moved to your trash in your home directory.

With KDE plasma the behaviour changed from KDE 4; this was news to me. To get back the rapid move to trash, you can create a .Trash folder at the top level of the relevant file systems, with appropriate permissions. F. ex., I have a file system called iso, mounted on /mnt/iso:

sudo mkdir /mnt/iso/.Trash
sudo chmod gw+rwt /mnt/iso/.Trash

Some of my old file systems (on a disc pulled from an old system) have a .Trash-1000 folder instead. With KDE 4 I suspect that dolphin created that automatically, at least some of the time. KDE and dolphin still see a unified trash can.

[mohittomar13]

@jlittle:

Actually I'm using dual boot with Windows 10 and my Linux Root '/' is 32 GB. As this was small so I moved "/home/mohit/" to a separate partition of size 32 GB.
(I moved and did not expand the current root because that option was not present and resizing the root was breaking my windows 10 file system.)

What should I do? Should I follow the steps you mention in the previous post?

Thanks .. :-)

[jlittle]

What should I do?

I'm sorry, I'm not sure. I don't know what you did what you did when you 'moved "/home/mohit/" to a separate partition'.

If you haven't got much done on the Linux install, a reinstall, (very carefully!) specifying the right place for / and /home, might be the way forward with the least effort. (I can reinstall in about the time it is taking me to type this reply, mostly because I did a lot of it a few months ago to check something out.)

Otherwise, I wonder where your real /home is. Did you

• install with / and /home to one partition
• not enough space, so make another partition
• move all of /home to the new partition
• edit /etc/fstab to mount /home on the new partition

The above doesn't sound likely. If it was done while booted into a live USB, it would work, but I imagine something would go wrong if booted into the install and logged in.

If your /home is all ok, and you were trashing something on the / partition, then my post would apply. I've just checked my / and there was no .Trash there; I suppose users aren't supposed to be trashing stuff on /. I created /.Trash, chmod, and dolphin started using it.

[jglen490]

Perhaps if we look at this current thread as well as the OP's other thread we can have some more understanding of this problem.

[mohittomar13]

Thanks, everyone, this resolved my issue. I created .Trash directory based on the suggestion from this thread and some googling. Now things are fast. :-)

Is there a way I can like a post? I see the option to report the post if it's inappropriate but not the like button.

[Don B. Cilly]

Is there a way I can like a post?

Well, there's an option to "rate" the thread, but it usually disappears as soon as the thread gets interesting enough to rate :·)



To like a post... vBulletin does have the capability, but I think you have to buy the option.
Otherwise, you could...

[mohittomar13]

Alright then...