[Bug 228369] [NEW] add an option to autodelete items from trash:/ after a specified span of time
Public bug reported: It would be good to have an expire kind of option for the Trash folders in [K]ubuntu. In the current mode, the Trash folder is useless. Users will either do a Shift + Delete or Delete + Empty Trash. If an expiry option is provided, it'll help a lot. An example: I use the laptop running Kubuntu. I take backups almost daily onto an external HDD. If I go with the current mode, when I delete, I do: * Shift + Delete or * Delete + Empty Trash. In both cases a backup of the data is no more available. If you implement the feature I'm requesting for, I'd do it in the following way. * Set Trash Item Expire to 15 days. * Throw unneeded items to Trash and forget. * In 1-2 days, they'd get backed-up to my external HDD * On the 15th day, they'd be _deleted_ Whoops. I need that data back. No problem. I still must be having it in my backup HDD. Please, add this feature. ** Affects: gnome-desktop (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: kdebase (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: gnome-desktop (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- add an option to autodelete items from trash:/ after a specified span of time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/228369 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-desktop in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 228369] Re: add an option to autodelete items from trash:/ after a specified span of time
Sebastien, Can you please provide the link to the original bug report? -- add an option to autodelete items from trash:/ after a specified span of time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/228369 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 228369] Re: add an option to autodelete items from trash:/ after a specified span of time
Thank you. The upstream bug reports are helpful. Both the bug reports are quite old but with no fix downstream yet. So I'm not sure when we could see this in [K]ubuntu. I hope we all are aware of tmpreaper. It cleans files/folders in /tmp based on how old they are. Probably, till it gets fixed, I'll use something similar to it. TrashReaper? Should a TrashReaper kind of approach be proposed for the next release? -- add an option to autodelete items from trash:/ after a specified span of time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/228369 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 228369] Re: add an option to autodelete items from trash:/ after a specified span of time
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat .kde/shutdown/TrashReaper #!/bin/bash #Removes old files from the KDE trash folder (KDE >= 3.4) #(c) 2005 Bram Schoenmakers # http://bram85.blogspot.com/2005/11/only-good-for-trash-bin.html EXPIREDATE=`date -d'30 days ago' +%Y%m%d` TRASHDIR=~/.local/share/Trash cd $TRASHDIR/info for ITEM in *.trashinfo; do ITEMNAME=`echo "$ITEM" | sed -e 's/.trashinfo//'` #extract date TRASHDATE=`grep DeletionDate "$ITEM" | sed -e 's/^.*\(\)-\(..\)-\(..\)T.*$/\1\2\3/'` if [ $TRASHDATE -le $EXPIREDATE ]; then rm -rf "$TRASHDIR/files/$ITEMNAME" rm -f "$TRASHDIR/info/$ITEM" #echo "$TRASHDIR/files/$ITEMNAME" #echo "$TRASHDIR/info/$ITEM" fi done [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ crontab -l # m h dom mon dow command @daily ~/.kde/shutdown/TrashReaper With this script in ~/.kde/shutdown and a cronjob to run daily, Trash auto-delete can be accomplished. -- add an option to autodelete items from trash:/ after a specified span of time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/228369 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
