Bug 430076

Summary:	Files on external hard drives should be deleted upon pressing "delete", not moved to your internal drive. Currently there is no obvious way to delete these files at all
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	leftcrane <leftcrane>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	kfm-devel, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	20.08.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description leftcrane 2020-12-06 14:23:45 UTC

SUMMARY

On every other system, when you "delete" a file from an external disk it does what you expect - DELETE the file, typically after a warning. Not Dolphin though, here it gets moved to your main disk, into the trash folder.

But this is not even the worst thing here. Not only is the expected behavior not default, it's not even realistically achievable. The only way to do it, is if you know the hidden "delete permanently shortcut," which is nowhere to be found in the GUI.




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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2020-12-06 14:54:22 UTC

They get moved to the trash on the local disk. This was broken until recently but was fixed in Frameworks 5.75 (See Bug 76380). So now they should be copied to local disk's trash rather than being copied to another disk's trash. This is the expected, intended behavior.

Are you using Frameworks 5.75 or later and still seeing that files are being copied to another disk's trash?

Comment 2 Bug Janitor Service 2020-12-21 04:34:42 UTC

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Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2021-01-05 04:34:09 UTC

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
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