Deleted files appear again.

[13thSlayer]

After restarting the system (Logging out/rebooting/turning off), files i deleted appear again. Like, what the hell.
ADDED: Forgot to mention, i use EXT4 filesystem, if that helps.

[kubicle]

Re: Deleted files appear again.

What kind of files are those? Many configuration files are recreated upon bootup or login.

[13thSlayer]

Re: Deleted files appear again.

Openoffice docs, plain text files, some windows executables... well, they are not configurations.

[dibl]

Re: Deleted files appear again.

i use EXT4 filesystem, if that helps.

That is probably irrelevant. I've been using ext4 since 9.04 Alpha and have not observed any filesystem problems.

How did you delete (or thought you deleted)?

[13thSlayer]

Re: Deleted files appear again.

Dolphin, right click, clicked Delete. (DELETE, not MOVE TO TRASH)

[dibl]

Re: Deleted files appear again.

Dolphin, right click, clicked Delete. (DELETE, not MOVE TO TRASH)

On mine, which is default KDE 4.3 it's the same menu item for "Move to Trash" and "Del". Did you customize the Dolphin menu, somehow? Does "move to trash" work correctly? Does the "rm" command on the command line work correctly?

[kubicle]

Re: Deleted files appear again.

On mine, which is default KDE 4.3 it's the same menu item for "Move to Trash" and "Del".

You probably haven't enabled 'delete' in dolphin's settings>general>contextmenu

Openoffice docs, plain text files, some windows executables... well, they are not configurations.

Definitely something fishy then. As dibl suggested, try the rm command to see if that works as expected.

Does this happen with all files/deletes, or just occasionally?

[13thSlayer]

Re: Deleted files appear again.

just sometimes(but still too often), and now i can't try rm, nor move to trash, cause i have no files to delete.

[aged hippy]

Re: Deleted files appear again.

<Shift> + <Delete> will erase them irretrievably, so be careful to only use it on files you will not want again.

[13thSlayer]

Re: Deleted files appear again.

doh, i know. Exactly why i used shift+del, not del. i hate trashing stuff.

[dibl]

Re: Deleted files appear again.

On mine, which is default KDE 4.3 it's the same menu item for "Move to Trash" and "Del".

You probably haven't enabled 'delete' in dolphin's settings>general>contextmenu

Ahhhhhhhh -- see, I learned something today -- thanks kubicle!

Upon reflection, however, I think I'm going to stick with letting it go to trash first. Once in awhile that second chance to make the "delete" decision comes in very handy!