** Changed in: ubuntu-gnome
Status: New => Confirmed
** Tags added: yakkety
** Project changed: nautilus => gvfs
** Also affects: gvfs (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1612343
Title:
Unable to delete large folders in Trash
Status in gvfs:
Confirmed
Status in Ubuntu GNOME:
Confirmed
Status in gvfs package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
I have found that since the indicator of file operations was replaced
with the notification coming from the right of the top bar rather than
a popup window, that I am unable to delete large folders from Trash.
Placing them in Trash sometimes means that other items (even really
small ones) can't be deleted until the large folders have been moved
from Trash to another location, though on other occasions all, or at
least half, of the other files will be seemingly successfully deleted,
though not the large folder(s).
For instance I have a folder with many sub-folders, which each have
many sub-sub-folders etc and lots of files... The folder's file size
is about 1.7GB. I tried creating a tar of the file which was 1.8GB, I
moved that into Trash and it was deleted within about a second with no
trouble at all so it seems only to be folders.
I looked at the properties for a large folder I placed in Trash by
itself, and even though I had clicked the Empty Trash button many
times now, it was staying at the same size.
I find that the indicator which is meant to be indicating how it's
doing to me is always just stuck at "Preparing", even when it actually
deletes stuff it only ever really shows that so is not very useful.
I am running Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 with GNOME 3.20, but I believe this
was also present in 3.18, though not to such a bad degree (pressing
the Empty Trash button many times in some cases eventually worked on
3.18, but on 3.20 I can't seem to do anything to delete the folder
without first splitting it up).
One thing to note though is that if I am to use the right-click option
to permanently delete files and folders (which can be enabled in the
Preferences) then it deletes them just fine apart from showing a huge
and negative amount of files per seconds, but that is for another bug
report.
I have only tested this in Nautilus, I have not yet tested if it works
better in a different file manager, I will comment when I have tested
it with a different file manager.
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