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Just annotations of little "how to's", so I know I can find how to do something I've already done when I need to do it again, in case I don't remember anymore, which is not unlikely. Hopefully they can be useful to others, but I can't guarantee that it will work, or that it won't even make things worse.
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After quite a long time and many failed attempts, I've managed to get Dolphin to "see" the trash bin on a partition it missed

Posted 05-29-2019 at 04:13 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 10-11-2020 at 05:02 PM by the dsc
For some reason, and I can't fathom what, Dolphin only saw the home's trash and two additional partitions, but missed another one. Even PCManFM-QT was able to see and use that trash partition, while files deleted there wouldn't show up on Dolphin/Konqueror (which wouldn't delete them when emptying), and files over there deleted from D/K would be dumbly moved to the home partition.

I'm sure that besides trying to create brand new Trash folders, I've even tried to copy (preserving...
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Replace trash-cli with kioclient move $@ trash:/ for cross-partition trashing

Posted 03-27-2016 at 09:17 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
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However arguable, some people want to trash by moving into another partition's trash folders. The linux/unix/whatever trash specifications theoretically prohibit that, but KDE's implementation doesn't. So a linked or bind-mounted trash into a different partition will behave normally, except it will move the file across, obviously.

If you also use trash-cli, which won't work with such hacks, it can be replaced with the kioclient command, that in turn can be scripted or perhaps even...
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