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Idea
#63: better trash bin
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Written by nomis the 28 Feb 08 at 16:12.
Category: System.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
It would be nice to have a feature like: "delete items older than 2 weeks"
Tags:
(none)
Attachments
 Bug #150112 : GNOME needs a "Trash Autopurge" functionnality
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Comments
 Alan Pope (Ubuntu Developer) wrote on the 28 Feb 08 at 16:29
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#!/bin/sh
find ~/.Trash -mtime +14 -exec rm -f \;
:)
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skyhook19 wrote on the 28 Feb 08 at 23:35
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I think nomis was going for a graphical setting for that...
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Tolaris wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 01:19
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How about an option to "Limit Trash to 5% of partition"?
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derick.eisenhardt wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 06:23
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I would very much like to see the gnome Trash Bin do an automatic removal of items older than a certain time period or when the drive is getting close to full.
Honestly, if something sits in your trash for 30 days there's a fairly good chance that you're never going to restore it.
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Graf wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 07:29
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Great idea.
This sort of thing would help set Ubuntu apart from windows/OS x
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johan wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 12:31
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Sure that would be nice, but what's really needed is an option to put the files back wherever they were deleted from.
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antistress wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 00:32
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see also idea #1605: Trash Criteria/Timing
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logfish wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 01:57
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I've got a small crontab line that might help some:
find ~/.local/share/Trash/files/ -type f -mtime 30 -printf '%P\000' |xargs -n1 -I -0 gvfs-rm trash:///_
Mind you, this is for the upcoming hardy.
(more on what it does at http://log.logfish.net/node/23 )
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jiu wrote on the 5 Mar 08 at 07:38
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...and a "restore to initial location" option
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antistress wrote on the 5 Mar 08 at 14:05
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restore to initial locataion will be possible in near future thanks to GVFS (which will replace GnomeVFS in GNOME 2.22)
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sampoli wrote on the 7 May 08 at 20:33
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A small annoyance of the trashcan i just noticed: when you click the trashcan icon, it opens up the trashcan window. On the second click it opens a second one and so on. It would probably be better if it closed the existing trash window when the icon was clicked, like pidgin does for example.
This may be intentional, but i can't come up with a situation where i would need several trashcans open simultaneously.
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uaneme wrote on the 5 Jun 08 at 04:19
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delete oldest trash item older then 7 day when bin is fuller then xxxx MB
and also a fix for trash that gets 'jailed' in the bin.
i often have to sudo nautilus to put the trash out.
(external harddrive trash issue .trash .trash-0 .trash-1000 folders)
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