Calibre on Linux, deleted files lignering forever

[rashkae]

Calibre 3.44 installed on Ubuntu 16.04

When files are deleted in Calibre, they are moved to the .Trash-<uid> folder, However, the files do not appear in the Trash folder on any of the file managers, (Mate, Gnome, nor in KDE's Dolphin.). ergo emptying the trash does not remove them. They stay stuck until I manually delete the hidden .Trash folders.

What system command, exactly, that Calibre is using to delete files that is failing, I don't know.

[DiapDealer]

A quick check on a couple of my Linux VMs shows deleted books going to the Desktop Environment's Trash folder. Emptying the trash then removes them.

Arch Linux (Cinnamon)
Mint 19 (Xfce)

Calibre 3.44

[kovidgoyal]

calibre uses a python send2trash implementation to mov files to trash on linux. See the linux_trash.py file in the calibre source code.

[kovidgoyal]

and on my system dolphin is abl to find and delete the trash files fine.

[rashkae]

Thank you.

A bit more testing has revealed that the same thing happens if deleting files from the same mount point with either Nautilus or PCFile Man. it seems to be something fundamentally broken with GTK apps and multiple mount points on same device. (ie, nothing at all to do with Calibre, sorry for the bother.)

[Doitsu]

Originally Posted by rashkae

Thank you.

A bit more testing has revealed that the same thing happens if deleting files from the same mount point with either Nautilus or PCFile Man.

BTW, on my Arch Linux 5.1.15 OpenBox machine, files deleted with Thunar and PCManFM are moved to the trash can (/home/$USER/.local/share/Trash), however, Calibre books end up in the Trash-<uid> tmp folder.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by Doitsu

BTW, on my Arch Linux 5.1.15 OpenBox machine, files deleted with Thunar and PCManFM are moved to the trash can (/home/$USER/.local/share/Trash), however, Calibre books end up in the Trash-<uid> tmp folder.

This only happens if the deleted files are not located on the same partition or physical device media as your home directory. See the Trash specification for more details: https://specifications.freedesktop.o...hspec-1.0.html

The .Trash-<uid> directory should be created in the root of the external drive. Programs which implement the Trash specification should show you these files, but don't always (and just because they put them there is not a guarantee that they will see them once they do).

One Trash implementation that I know works is the trash-list command that is part of trash-cli (a command-line utility).

"gio ls" seems to work too, but it's unusable to parse. nemo successfully shows them to me in the GUI.