Where is the Trash? In the box with the Ambiguity?

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Freitag, den 16.10.2009, 22:10 -0400 schrieb Tom Horsley:
> What apocalypse do they imagine would take place if they actually
> allowed nautilus to provide information, like the real honest to
> gosh location of the folder it is browsing? (It is spelt
> trash:///, but pronounced throat-warbler mangrove).

There are several reasons why sou see trash:/// as the URI instead of
~/.local/share/Trash/:

     1. It is a virtual folder. It not only includes the actual files
        (from  ~/.local/share/Trash/files/) but also the metadata (e. g.
        time a file was deleted, stored in ~/.local/share/Trash/info/).
     2. If you have multiple partitions, there are several trash-folders
        on your system. The trash for an external USB drive is on that
        external drive, otherwise deleting files could take ages as they
        would have to be copied to your $HOME, which perhaps might not
        even have enough space left. All the different folders are
        presented as a single one in the virtual filesystem trash:///.

Regards,
Christoph