I'm using 'Dolphin' from KDE as my file manager, that's the only GUI'ness in usage in this situation! :)
The 'emptytrash' script is called at 1300 each day from cron, giving plenty of time to leave stuff in the waste bin for future retrieval. 'atime' is not installed as its not in the wheezy repos, and when i want to install it apt-get comes back at me saying "E: Unable to locate package atime" You give me the commands and i'll run them. ls-l didn't show up any mention of trash/wastebin! Sharon. On 4 March 2013 01:37, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > Sharon Kimble wrote: > > Thanks, after repopulating .trash with files suitable for deleting, i was > > able to test it out. And ' find $HOME/.local/share/Trash -type f > -mtime > > +7' did find one file, which i was then able to delete by running the > same > > command again with '-delete' at the end. > > Yay! :-) > > > I now see in .trash that there are two directories, one dated 8th > February, > > and one dated 16th February which should be eligible for deletion. > > The top two directories "files", and "info" will always be created and > those will always be new. If those are the two you see then I would > simply leave those. It is subdirectories that are more interesting. > > > Except, if you go by its properties date, it was last accessed > > 3/3/13, which means that its not deletable until the 10th. Is that > > correct please? > > You say "properties" making me think you are using a graphical file > manager. That's fine. But often those make things too simple. > Usually they hide too much. And they make it impossible to concisely > show us what you are seeing. > > Instead could you show us the output using shell command line tools? > Open a terminal window and run the commands. Then cut and paste the > output from the commands back for us to see. Using 'ls -l' is good. > Or there are other ways such as the find -ls option. Or 'stat'. But > 'ls -l' is good. > > Really when deleting these files the access time is most interesting. > But these days many people turn atime off! It isn't available then. > If you don't turn it off then atime might be a better choice than > mtime. > > When files are put into the trashcan what timestamps (if any) are > updated? I wonder if a file could be put in the trash and immediately > be a candidate due to having been old before and not modified when it > was put in the trashcan. That might cause the emptytrash script to > immediately delete it. > > Bob > -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk/taste/index.html efever = http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ efever = http://sharon04.livejournal.com/ Debian Wheezy, LXDE 2 LibreOffice 3.5.4.2 Registered Linux user 334501
