nautilus ignores trash on external drives

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

I experience the same bug. Only tested with NTFS drive.

Because my bug report #1633824 was marked as a duplicate, I want to point out that in my case all internal (built-in) disks and ext4 partitions are effected - not only externals drives - and this on three different machines !

After logging out and in again to test something else, it just worked for me (cannot reproduce it), until I rebooted.

I'm not as lucky as clel.

On 4 machines running 16.10 this can be reproduced (no logout/login helps).
3 are Macs, 1 HP.
Different drives (USB-Sticks, HDs, SSDs) used to test.

I could not reproduce this with internal disks though.

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

The logging out and in again trick worked again for me two times. Today I waited around 10 minutes and then logged out and in.

I also just created a bug report on bugzilla from Gnome: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773819

I am not sure if this is a GNOME upstream problem, because as I mentioned in my bug report #1633824 : This does not happen in other Linux distributions with GNOME 3.20 desktop environment when using the Nautilus 3.20 file manager.

As described in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773819#c3 this seems to be a known issue and should be fixed in GLib 2.50.1 (Ubuntu 16.10 uses 2.50.0)

Created a bug report asking to update the glib package here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glib2.0/+bug/1638846

Any updates?

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

I have this problem with removable media (USB memory stick and USB HDD, FAT32 and NTFS) and also with my secondary internal HDD (EXT4).

Sorry, just noticed that this was actually fixed upstream at the end of September, and it seems now we all should pray for Ubuntu package maintainers to update the glib2.0 package from 2.50.0... to 2.50.1...

If I understand you right then the glib in the queue should fix this. I updated the bug statuses accordingly.

Yes, you are right. Do you know any ETA for the integration of the fixed glib version?

Hello Dylan, or anyone else affected,

Accepted glib2.0 into yakkety-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glib2.0/2.50.2-2ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

While I've accepted this into -proposed and the Test Case is rather obvious it'd still be helpful if someone were to update the description such that it follows the SRU template.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

Update-Manager just offered the update to me (I use proposed). I will test and report back.

After updating, then logging out then back in; I confirm that this fixes the issue for USB drives making their trash folder be treated like that of internal drives.

@cl-netbox : Did the update fix your variant of the issue?

I can confirm that this is fixed for my external drive now.

Installed glib2.0 from proposed repository.
Now all deleted items are visible in Trash.
Upgrading these packages fixed the issue :

libglib2.0-0 version 2.50.2-2ubuntu1
libglib2.0-bin version 2.50.2-2ubuntu1
libglib2.0-data version to 2.50.2-2ubuntu1

This bug was fixed in the package glib2.0 - 2.50.2-2ubuntu1

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glib2.0 (2.50.2-2ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * No-change backport of this stable release from unstable to 16.04 (LP:
    #1644320)
  * Should fix trashing of files in symlinked directories (LP: #1638245)
  * Should fix display of trash on external drives (LP: #1633824)

glib2.0 (2.50.2-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * debian/rules: disable libmount on !linux (Closes: #844052)
  * debian/patches/0001-Fix-trashing-on-overlayfs.patch: Update with new
    version from the upsstream report to hopefully fix trashing of files in
    directories which are symlinks to different devices. (Closes: #800047)

glib2.0 (2.50.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
  * Track stable releases in debian/watch.

glib2.0 (2.50.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Jason Crain ]
  * libglib2.0-bin: includes a new 'gio' commandline tool (Closes: #840164)

  [ Andreas Henriksson ]
  * New upstream release.

glib2.0 (2.50.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Simon McVittie ]
  * Build-depend on tzdata, which is no longer transitively Essential.
    One test needs it. (Closes: #839487)

  [ Michael Biebl ]
  * Fix Vcs-* to point to unstable.
  * Mark dependencies which are required to run the test-suite with
    <!nocheck>.
  * Add explicit Build-Depends on xsltproc, docbook-xml and docbook-xsl.
    Besides libxml2-utils, those are needed for building the man pages.
  * Drop Build-Depends on dbus-x11. The test-suite uses a mock version of
    dbus-launch nowadays, so this dependency is no longer needed.
    (Closes: #835884)
  * Use dh-exec to substitute ${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH} in .install, .links and
    .dirs files.

 -- Iain Lane <email address hidden> Wed, 23 Nov 2016 17:44:33 +0000

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