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   Message 30,367 of 30,566   
   Paul to Mike Easter   
   Re: Trash (Rubbish bin) folder   
   06 Feb 26 17:46:42   
   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 2/6/2026 1:42 PM, Mike Easter wrote:   
   > Mike Easter wrote:   
   >> RonB wrote:   
   >>> My main computer (running LM 21.3 Cinnamon) has the trash folder in   
   >>> ~/.local/share/Trash. I had trouble finding it because I kept searching for   
   >>> the lower case "trash."   
   >>   
   >> My Nemo shows Trash icon; but I cannot find such a directory. There is not   
   such in my Home/.local/share dir.   
   >>   
   >> The 'dir structure' shown in my Nemo is not 'consistent' re the Trash   
   situation.   
   >>   
   >> I don't yet understand how this works.   
   >>   
   > I'm seeing that 'some' of the Nemo dir structure icons do NOT correspond   
   conventionally.   
   >   
   > Two examples so far: Trash and Recents   
   >   
   > When I employ the function of examining Properties of those alleged 'dir/s'   
   I do NOT get the conventional info.   
   >   
      
   Take a testtest.txt file and throw it in the Trash.   
      
   Now, use Nemo and the search there, to find it. You   
   want to search on the root of the word as "testtest"   
   to be assured of finding it.   
      
   You can also use the find command from the command line.   
      
       find / -name "*testtest*" -print   
      
   or even   
      
      sudo updatedb   
      locate testtest   
      
   If your Trash has been set to directly-delete, then   
   there is no need for storage :-) And the Nemo search   
   will "fail", because no "mv" was used at all, and   
   instead the software used "rm".   
      
   Make sure that you are actually configured to use   
   Trash in the "buffered way", for there to be a   
   folder sitting there for you.   
      
      Paul   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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