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chino_black

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Registered: 2012-02-02

Posts: 3

Unable to find or create trash directory

hello

when trying to delete a file from a mounted ntfs partition with ntfs-3g gives me the following error "Unable to find or create trash directory"

I use fedora 16 with xfce 4.8

Greetings.

hansi999

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Registered: 2012-03-22

Posts: 1

Re: Unable to find or create trash directory

Hi,

exactly the same here. (archlinux)
Tried to change the permissions of .Trash folders, but its still not working.

regards,
hansi

Edit:
Ups, i have the problem with NFS mounts, i should improve my reading skills. :-(

Last edited by hansi999 (2012-03-23 15:48:05)

daggoth

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2009-03-05

Posts: 42

Re: Unable to find or create trash directory

Could this be because fat/ntfs filesystems don't support the same permissions used by linux filesystems like ext4? Files on ntfs/fat typically obtain their user/group properties from the mount options that you provide. I'm just guessing, but if this is your problem, then it is mentioned here.

chino_black

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Registered: 2012-02-02

Posts: 3

Re: Unable to find or create trash directory

not working

stqn

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Registered: 2010-10-11

Posts: 174

Re: Unable to find or create trash directory

In fstab :
LABEL=Data  /mnt/data  ntfs-3g  defaults,umask=077,uid=1000,gid=100,users,exec,noauto,noatime 0 0

The important parts being umask, uid and/or gid.

Math.

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Registered: 2012-04-26

Posts: 5

Re: Unable to find or create trash directory

Creating a .Trash-1000 folder in the root of your mounted ntfs partition will fix this.

gymka

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From: Lithuania

Registered: 2012-01-07

Posts: 20

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Re: Unable to find or create trash directory

In fstab :
LABEL=Data  /mnt/data  ntfs-3g  defaults,umask=077,uid=1000,gid=100,users,exec,noauto,noatime 0 0

The important parts being umask, uid and/or gid.

i had simillar problem with deluge(it said that can't reach files), adding "uid" and "gid" to fstab line helped.