This issue is a combination of Caja and trash applet from what I see, not necessarily only issue with trash applet. On MATE (Caja) in other distros like Debian, even LinuxMint, we get a dialog to empty trash from external drive to save space on that drive. If we agree trash is emptied and trash icon reflects status correctly. If we eject without emptying trash, the trash-icon stays full. However, on Ubuntu MATE there is no pop-up dialog unlike in other distros when there is deleted content; it just ejects the medium. UM is deviating from default behavior.
** Attachment added: "Screenshot at 2020-10-18 11-28-04.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mate/+bug/269441/+attachment/5423589/+files/Screenshot%20at%202020-10-18%2011-28-04.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to glib2.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269441 Title: Trash always full Status in Ubuntu MATE: Confirmed Status in glib2.0 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I've seen other users having problems with that the trash appears empty even though it isn't. I have the opposite problem: my trash icon on the desktop always appears full, even if empty. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mate/+bug/269441/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
