Version: (using KDE 4.3.0) Installed from: Gentoo Packages When kio_trash is configured to automatically "Delete files older than" or "Limit to maximum size", the automatic Trash cleaning only occurs when a new file is trashed. There should be a way to manually invoke the configured Trash cleanup. Ideas: 1. Expose a DBus method that manually triggers the configured Trash cleanup policy. A power user could call this method from a nightly cronjob. 2. Add a context menu option to "Clean Up Trash", which would be in addition to the existing "Empty Trash". 3. Schedule a periodic background job that runs the Trash cleanup, so old files in the Trash get deleted per the "Delete files older than" configuration, even if the user is not trashing any additional files.
Is this still the way it works with KDE Frameworks 5.45 or greater?
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(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > Is this still the way it works with KDE Frameworks 5.45 or greater? This report still applies as of KDE Frameworks 5.51. I have my Trash configured to delete files older than 90 days, yet I still have files with ctimes older than 90 days ago in my ~/.local/share/Trash/files directory. Indeed, I still have files with ctimes older than 97 days ago. $ find ~/.local/share/Trash/files -type f -ctime +97 | wc -l 2 $ find ~/.local/share/Trash/files -type f -ctime +98 | wc -l 0 If your assertion is that there is a periodic background process that should be cleaning expired files out of the Trash, then could you tell me how often this process is supposed to run? My KDE session has been logged in continuously for the last 14 days (since 11 October), yet evidently no process has cleaned the Trash.
Thanks for the info. #3 from your original three ideas seems like the sanest solution to me.
Another data point. I had 3 files in my Trash with ctimes older than 90 days ago. Immediately after I checked this, I moved one file to the Trash (via the context menu in a File Open dialog in a KDE application), and then I immediately checked my Trash again and found 0 files with ctimes older than 90 days ago. So indeed trashing a file triggered the cleanup. It just doesn't trigger spontaneously.
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