On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 4:27 AM, <random...@fastmail.us> wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2015, at 00:25, Chris Angelico wrote: >> The main thing is that trashing invites the system to delete the file >> at its leisure, > > I've never seen a system whose trash can emptied itself without user > intervention.
They always grow to infinity on your systems? Huh. That's probably the better option, but I've had to manage Windowses back as far as XP recently (back as far as W95 but not for many years, fortunately) and the system would very kindly remove from the trash... I'm fairly sure the algorithm was either random or outright malicious, but it did remove stuff. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list