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unboggling · 07-31-2011, 04:20 PM

Actually, OSX does delete to the trash. I assume there's a separate (invisible) trash dir on each drive - internal or removable - because when I delete files on any drives their icons or filenames show up in the system trash bin on the desktop regardless of where they're from - then when I empty trash those point back to the relevant trash dirs. The next time I'm root maybe I'll remember to look for them. EDIT, or - it's all just pointers to storage addresses anyway.

Anyway, my trash problems happened in a library on the internal drive. I keep working-libraries internal and only backups and raw-incoming book files on externals. The 2 working libraries are Add and Main. Add was originally 32GB and is now a bit less, it's where I process incomings. Main is only 6GB or so, where processed books end up. The trash-problem library so far is Add. I don't remember if Main had the same problem, I'll test it. Both are on same internal drive as OSX and calibre.

The copying will finish in a few minutes

07-31-2011, 04:20 PM	#14
unboggling Wizard Posts: 1,065 Karma: 858115 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Kobo Clara, Kindle Paperwhite 10	Actually, OSX does delete to the trash. I assume there's a separate (invisible) trash dir on each drive - internal or removable - because when I delete files on any drives their icons or filenames show up in the system trash bin on the desktop regardless of where they're from - then when I empty trash those point back to the relevant trash dirs. The next time I'm root maybe I'll remember to look for them. EDIT, or - it's all just pointers to storage addresses anyway. Anyway, my trash problems happened in a library on the internal drive. I keep working-libraries internal and only backups and raw-incoming book files on externals. The 2 working libraries are Add and Main. Add was originally 32GB and is now a bit less, it's where I process incomings. Main is only 6GB or so, where processed books end up. The trash-problem library so far is Add. I don't remember if Main had the same problem, I'll test it. Both are on same internal drive as OSX and calibre. The copying will finish in a few minutes Last edited by unboggling; 07-31-2011 at 04:30 PM.