Trash confusion

[stustaff]

So my trasgph can keeps getting full and stooping me deleting things!


Can I move trashcan too the SDcard?


It just took me 3 empties of the trashcan to get something deleted!

 

[Gerix]

So my trasgph can keeps getting full and stooping me deleting things!


Can I move trashcan too the SDcard?


It just took me 3 empties of the trashcan to get something deleted!

On most systems, Shift+DEL bypasses the trash. Try that.

 

[stustaff]

On most systems, Shift+DEL bypasses the trash. Try that.

Tried it... Does nothing.


Now had to empty it about 9 times to delete a 1gb folder!

 

[ZXDunny]

Is the trashcan on the pandora using the NAND?


D.

 

[stustaff]

Is the trashcan on the pandora using the NAND?


D.

Oh yes!

 

[Gerix]

Can you delete the folder on a different computer? I'm assuming it's on the SD. It's not a great solution, but if it's all you've got...


Edit: You could also try deleting it from the command line.

 

[darfgarf]

Tried it... Does nothing.

try again, because it does work, personally i hold shift, then hold stylus and drag to delete in the menu to select it there

 

[stustaff]

try again, because it does work, personally i hold shift, then hold stylus and drag to delete in the menu to select it there

Does not work on mine!


Does pressing shift and the del on yours work or just with stylus?

 

[meandu229]

Oh yes!

NAND isnt big I think if you delete a 1gb folder from sd card it puts in in trash on nand? so its filling up the nand?

 

[stustaff]

NAND isnt big I think if you delete a 1gb folder from sd card it puts in in trash on nand? so its filling up the nand?

Yes that's why I asked if trash can be moved.

 

[darfgarf]

Does pressing shift and the del on yours work or just with stylus?

works fine every way for me, you could of course just use 'rm -f foo.extension' until someone moves the recycle bin, or better yet either disables it/changes just delete to permanently delete it

 

[Prometheus]

As gfrancisdev describes, you need to right-click the offending item, then move the mouse-pointer to highlight "Delete", *then* press and hold Shift, and click on "Delete" in the menu. It will then pop up a message to ask if you want to delete the item permanently, as this will cause it to bypass the trash bin. Obviously, you can release Shift once you see this.


(The traditional Linux Shift+Del for this action does not work on the Pandora at this time, unfortunately. Hopefully the trash bin will be moved soon.)

 

[WizardStan]

This issue has already been reported and needs to be fixed. No worries, it'll get addressed, eventually, hopefully. :unsure:

 

[Eridger]

Shouldn't it be possible to create a symlink on the NAND to a trash directory on the SD card..?

 

[Gerix]

We could just torch the trash bin. I have no use for it, other than giving my pinky a workout.

 

[stustaff]

Thanks all.


So anyone tellmme how I can set up so my deletes bypass the trash bin.

 

[Prometheus]

There is this from the other forum, if it's of any help.