Fwd: Leopard, home on NFS, and Trash

Gregory Seidman gsslist+osxadmin at anthropohedron.net
Wed Apr 2 12:44:10 PDT 2008


On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 03:35:57PM -0400, Randal Hicks wrote:
> On Apr 2, 2008, at 3:18 PM, Gregory Seidman wrote:
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>> The Finder doesn't see anything in the Trash, even though her .Trash
>> directory is full of stuff. Dragging a file to the Trash warns that it
>> will be deleted immediately instead of being moved to the Trash and,
>> indeed, that's what happened. I moved .Trash aside, restarted the
>> Finder,  and it correctly created a new .Trash directory. The problem
>> with nothing appearing in it (even when I move something in from the
>> commandline) and the warning (and behavior) about deleting immediately
>> remains,  multiple Finder restarts notwithstanding.
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> Greg,
> Doublecheck the permissions and ownership on ~/.Trash  as it sounds  like
> she no longer owns the 'the trashcan'.  Warnings of immediate deletion
> would indicate that this is your problem.

As I mentioned, the Finder happily created a new .Trash directory. One
would assume that it has correct permissions as a result, but:

drwx------  2 mseidman  users  4096 Apr  2 14:02 .Trash

I believe those are the correct permissions. The problem persists.

> regards,
> Randal
--Greg



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