file deletion from usb drive??

[bruce]

Hi,

Created external 500G usb hard drive,
Added ~300G of dirs/files to it

I can see the files from the mounted drive, via the "Computer" icon of
the desktop.

Here's the tricky issue!

I drill down in the drive/dir icon to get the target dir, which has
1000s of files in it. I select a few using the mouse, select the "move
to trash" menu item, and after it says it's moving files to the trash,
I do a refresh/reload, and the files are still there!!

So, just how do I delete files from the external drive!

Thanks

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 23 December 2013, bruce sent:
> I select a few using the mouse, select the "move to trash" menu item,
> and after it says it's moving files to the trash, I do a
> refresh/reload, and the files are still there!!
>
> So, just how do I delete files from the external drive!

I dunno about that problem (do you own the files you're trying to
delete?), but if you want to delete files, try using a delete command
rather than "move to trash, then empty trash."  Have you done the "empty
trash" step, too?

I always set the option to show an actual delete command in the Nautilus
file browser.  If I actually want to delete files, then messing around
with the trashcan is a timewaster.

[bruce]

I tried adding the delete option to Nautilus, as well as running the
rm command from the cmdline

find . -name "*Booklist.html*" | xargs rm -f

I've tried all of this as root with no results.

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Tim  wrote:
> Allegedly, on or about 23 December 2013, bruce sent:
> > I select a few using the mouse, select the "move to trash" menu item,
> > and after it says it's moving files to the trash, I do a
> > refresh/reload, and the files are still there!!
> >
> > So, just how do I delete files from the external drive!
>
> I dunno about that problem (do you own the files you're trying to
> delete?), but if you want to delete files, try using a delete command
> rather than "move to trash, then empty trash."  Have you done the "empty
> trash" step, too?
>
> I always set the option to show an actual delete command in the Nautilus
> file browser.  If I actually want to delete files, then messing around
> with the trashcan is a timewaster.
>
> --
> [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
> Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64
>
> All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
> trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
> public lists.
>
> George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
> a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.
>
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[John Wendel]

On 12/23/2013 05:52 AM, bruce wrote:
> I tried adding the delete option to Nautilus, as well as running the
> rm command from the cmdline
>
> find . -name "*Booklist.html*" | xargs rm -f
>
> I've tried all of this as root with no results.
>
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Tim  wrote:
> > Allegedly, on or about 23 December 2013, bruce sent:
> > > I select a few using the mouse, select the "move to trash" menu item,
> > > and after it says it's moving files to the trash, I do a
> > > refresh/reload, and the files are still there!!
> > >
> > > So, just how do I delete files from the external drive!
> >
> > I dunno about that problem (do you own the files you're trying to
> > delete?), but if you want to delete files, try using a delete command
> > rather than "move to trash, then empty trash."  Have you done the "empty
> > trash" step, too?
> >
> > I always set the option to show an actual delete command in the Nautilus
> > file browser.  If I actually want to delete files, then messing around
> > with the trashcan is a timewaster.
> >
> > --
> > [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
> > Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64
> >
> > All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
> > trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
> > public lists.
> >
> > George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
> > a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.
> >
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Is your disk mounted read-only ?  Can you make new files on it ?

Regards,

John

[bruce]

John,

I can create new dirs on it, I assume I can create files as well. I'm
assuming it should be read/write/delete...

I've been looking to see exactly how centos/fedora assigns privs/perms
when doing auto mount for external/usb hard drives.

In the nutilus gui for the computer/drive, there is a item for
properties that has permissions.. I did set all of the sections that I
saw to read/write/delete in the event this was a perm issue.

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 12:20 PM, John Wendel  wrote:
> On 12/23/2013 05:52 AM, bruce wrote:
> > I tried adding the delete option to Nautilus, as well as running the
> > rm command from the cmdline
> >
> > find . -name "*Booklist.html*" | xargs rm -f
> >
> > I've tried all of this as root with no results.
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Tim  wrote:
> > > Allegedly, on or about 23 December 2013, bruce sent:
> > > > I select a few using the mouse, select the "move to trash" menu item,
> > > > and after it says it's moving files to the trash, I do a
> > > > refresh/reload, and the files are still there!!
> > > >
> > > > So, just how do I delete files from the external drive!
> > >
> > > I dunno about that problem (do you own the files you're trying to
> > > delete?), but if you want to delete files, try using a delete command
> > > rather than "move to trash, then empty trash."  Have you done the "empty
> > > trash" step, too?
> > >
> > > I always set the option to show an actual delete command in the Nautilus
> > > file browser.  If I actually want to delete files, then messing around
> > > with the trashcan is a timewaster.
> > >
> > > --
> > > [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
> > > Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64
> > >
> > > All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
> > > trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
> > > public lists.
> > >
> > > George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
> > > a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.
> > >
> > > --
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>
> Is your disk mounted read-only ?  Can you make new files on it ?
>
> Regards,
>
> John
>
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