Bug 993328 - Empty Trash and Purge Temporary Files do not work
Summary: Empty Trash and Purge Temporary Files do not work
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: control-center
Version: 19
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Control Center Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-08-05 19:42 UTC by Christopher Beland
Modified: 2015-02-17 16:35 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-02-17 16:35:49 UTC
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Description Christopher Beland 2013-08-05 19:42:48 UTC
I did the following:
* Start gnome-control-center
* Go to Privacy
* Go to Purge Trash and Temporary Files
* Click Empty Trash
* Click Purge Temporary Files
* Go to Trash icon on desktop
* See that there are still files in trash when they should have just been emptied
* "ls /tmp" and see that there are still files there even though they should have just been purged.
* "find ~/.cache" and see that there are still files there even though they should have just been purged.

I wouldn't expect the settings in the pop-up box to matter, but they were set to:
* Automatically Empty Trash: Off
* Automatically Purge Temporary Files: Off
* Purge After: 30 days

control-center-3.8.3-2.fc19.x86_64

Comment 1 Rui Matos 2013-09-11 13:32:47 UTC
This might be fixed in gnome-settings-daemon 3.8.5, can you test again?

Comment 2 Christopher Beland 2014-07-27 19:47:47 UTC
With control-center-3.8.5-2.fc19.x86_64, the trash is correctly emptied.  I still see files in /tmp (which might be legitmate) and files in ~/.cache/ which belong to Evolution, Firefox, etc.  Not sure what the scope of "Purge Temporary Files" is intended to be, but maybe that should be made more clear if it's not supposed to get everything.

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