can't delete (send to trash) files on usb devices.
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can't delete (send to trash) files on usb devices.
I (seemingly) was able to delete on a 256 SD card by changing the permissions-but it only created a trash file on the disk and put it in there. I couldn't even do that on a 1 GIG SD card. I have to keep going back to my Windows 2000 laptop and reformatting to delete.On my I-River mp3 player I have to use the built in reformatting program to delete in order to put in new music. What a pain. I did not have any trouble deleting files with SuSE 9.2.,Red Hat,Fedora,Mandrake or a slew of others-Why does this seem to be a problem with (K)Ubuntu? WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO TO DELETE ON A SD CARD? I don't have any problem deleting other things within the system-just on input devices.
What have you tried? (Changing permissions by itself doesn't delete files.)
You select "move to trash" as normal, then you rt-click on trash and select "empty trash"... while the SD card is still mounted. The last bit is important.
OR: in a nautilus windows,
edit > preferences --> behavior tab
under "trash"
check the box labeled "include a delete command that bypasses trash"
OR: use the terminal to browse to your media fs, and use the rm command.
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