When I try to delete new files that end up exceeding my Trash limit, I’m asked if I want to permanently delete the file instead of it being added to Trash. In my Trash settings I have set it to “Delete oldest files from Trash” on “Full Trash” but I don’t think it’s working.
The behavior I am trying to achieve is this: If I’m trying to trash a file but my Trash is too full to accept new files, the oldest files would get deleted until there’s space enough to move the current file, that I’m trying to trash, into the Trash. But maybe I’m understanding it wrong? If so, what does this setting actually do, and is there an easy way to accomplish what I’m trying to do without manually deleting the oldest files every time?
To me it feels like I have encountered a bug. Some sanity checks I checked:
- The file I’m trying to delete does not exceed the overall 10% Trash size limit I have set.
- Updated all packages
- Restarted
- Switching the Full Trash setting to “Show warning” and then back to “Delete oldest files from Trash”.
- My drive should have enough space to do these operations (~100GiB free).
Since I can’t upload a video, here is a collage of what I see (why do I need to do this just because I’m a new user…?):
I have also tried to press “Delete permanently” while getting this pop-up to see if it appears in trash but no, it does not.
I am on Arch Linux, with everything up to date. Here is some information from Info Center:
Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.24.0
Qt Version: 6.10.2
Kernel Version: 6.19.9-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core Processor
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31.3 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
Product Name: MS-7B85
System Version: 1.0