SUMMARY *** Dolphin does not clean up files in trash although cleanup after 1 day has been set. *** STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. current settings: cleanup after 1 day, limit size to 1% (~ 9GB here), trash full: delete oldest 2. delete some files, trash has still much capacity left, but does not seem to matter 3. wait two days and still find the files that IMHO should have been cleaned up OBSERVED RESULT files stay in trash EXPECTED RESULT really delete, cleanup up from trash 1 day after deletion SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: EndeavourOS KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.91.0 Qt Version: 5.15.3 Kernel Version: 5.16.14-arch1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U with Radeon Graphics Memory: 30.7 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD RENOIR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Have observed this behaviour on Kubuntu on my older laptop, too for a longer time but did not pay attention and used "autotrash" instead.
just found https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205854 this is what happens here, too. Putting a new file to trash and older files are gone. Al least confusing to user. May be scheduling "something" in the background once a day to trigger cleanup would not confuse users anymore...
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 205854 ***