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digikam package

Thunar doesn't clear 'metadata' when emtying trash

Bug #601942 reported by PhracturedBlue
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: thunar

Xubuntu 10.04 x86-64
thunar 1.0.1-3ubuntu1

I'm not sure if this is a KDE bug or a thunar bug.
When KDE apps (digikam in my case) dump files in trash, they properly go into $HOME/.local/share/Trash, but they also add a file '$HOME/.local/share/Trash/metdadata' which contains:
[Cached]
Size=2123321688

When I use thunar to empty the trash, it removes all files from the trash, but does not update the 'metadata' file. KDE apps (well digikam is the only one I have installed) then think the trash is full and won't add more items to it. removing the metadata file, or setting the Size to 0 resolves the issue.

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Charlie Kravetz (charlie-tca) wrote :

Changing the package to digicam, since thunar does not know to delete the extra directory.

Thunar uses two directories in ~/USER_NAME/.local/share/Trash :
     ~/USER_NAME/.local/share/Trash/files
     ~/USER_NAME/.local/share/Trash/info

If digicam is adding a third directory or an unknown directory, thunar will not delete it because it doesn't know it should.

affects: thunar (Ubuntu) → digikam (Ubuntu)
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Jonathan Kolberg (bulldog98) wrote :

That isn’t a Kubuntu Bug it’s a thunar bug

affects: digikam (Ubuntu) → thunar (Ubuntu)
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Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit) wrote :

> That isn’t a Kubuntu Bug it’s a thunar bug

I'm always happy to see such counterproductive behavior. It'd be nice if you could elaborate a bit, otherwise we're going to continue playing ping-pong with this bug report, ad nauseam. Thanks.

This metadata directory doesn't seem to be contained on the trash-directory specification (<http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/trash-spec>), so unless you prove me wrong, I think thunar works as expected.

Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)
Changed in thunar (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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