.dtrash is empty and full?

[Gilles Caulier]

There is a digiKam trash for each collection (local or removable). You
cannot use KDE trash with a link.

With 5.3.0, we have fixed some problem with trash. Try beta AppImage for
Linux 64 bits :

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzeiVr-byqt5SUZRMGtWa3VCUDg

Gilles Caulier

2016-10-31 18:42 GMT+01:00 Peter Mc Donough <mcd-mail-lists at gmx.net>:

> Am 31.10.2016 um 14:47 schrieb Remco Viëtor:
>
>> On lundi 31 octobre 2016 12:18:44 CET Peter Mc Donough wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> There is the trash folder in Digikam ".dtrash", ...
>>> Presently it is empty, but (!) if I check with dolphin, there are still
>>> about 250MB of photos. System Suse Tumbleweed, Digikam 5.2.0
>>> Which settings am I missing?
>>>
>>
>> Looking in that folder on my system, I see two folders beneath it:
>> - "files", containing .ARW and .XMP files
>> - "info", containing .dtrashinfo files, one for each file in the "files"
>> directory.
>> Could it be that in your case, the "info" directory is empty?
>>
>
> No, both contain the same number of files.
> Meanwhile the problem sorted itself out.
> I deleted another photo and suddenly the trash folder contained all files
> that I could see in dolphin. Then I could delete all those within Digikam.
>
>>
>> Alternatively, is there somewhere an option within Digikam for using the
>>> kde trash folder like in digkam 4.x, or could I simply link .dtash to my
>>> kde trash folder without causing problems?
>>>
>>
>> I'd expect the presence of the "info" directory and .dtrashinfo files to
>> cause
>> problems if you make .dtrash a link to the KDE trash folder (either the
>> "dtrash" could (appear to) be corrupted after emptying the KDE trash or
>> KDE
>> trash could show strange behaviour due to the ".dtrash" elements present)
>>
>
> KDE trash also has two folders: "files" and "info", so Digikam after
> "ln -s ~/local/share/Trash .dtrash"
> should just see what it expects, IF, and that is a big "if", it uses the
> system resources and not an own trash management.
>
> I played it bit with the link. After setting the link, deleted files
> didn't show up in KDE trash.
> So I better leave it alone.
>
> cu
> Peter
>
>
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