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Unable to find or create trash directory

Asked by mockdeep

When I try to right click on a song and click "Move to Trash" nothing happens. I move to the next song and an error appears next to the song I tried to delete. When I click on this it says "Playback Error - Unable to find or create trash directory". My music is on an external hard drive and I am wondering if a setting in Hardy prevents the creation of a trash folder, which I don't mind a bit, but I would like to be able to delete music from my player whether via sending it to the trash or just straight deleting it.

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mockdeep (rtfletch81) said : 		#1

I had the same problem when I tried to play music from my local hard drive and it turned out to be an issue with permissions on the relocated Trash folder. However the permissions on the external hard drive are all set and it still cannot delete files directly from there.

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tylerjwilk (tylerjwilk) said : 		#2

I too have the same problem with rhythmbox. What is the filesystem type of the partition in which it can not delete from?

I am using ubuntu 8.04, i had no problems with this on gutsy. The filesystem type of the partition in question is fat 32 on my machine

For the record i can delete files thru nautilus from that parition. Also rythmbox is able to delete files that are not on that parition

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studbucket (jtkimbell) said : 		#3

I have the same problem as mention above. I just updated to Ubuntu 8.04 and didn't have any problems on gutsy. My music library is on an NTFS partition, and when I attempt to delete a song ("Move To Trash"), I get the red error symbol next to the song. Once clicked, the message "Playback Error Unable to find or create trash directory" pops up.

There is a .trash-[username] folder on my NTFS partition that was what used to be the trash folder for songs I deleted, so I don't know what changed.

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mockdeep (rtfletch81) said : 		#4

Yeah, my external hard drive is an NTFS partition, too. I just ended up moving all of my music to my internal hard drive.

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Vancouverite (sethgilchrist) said : 		#5

I have the same problem with my copy of RB. I have my files on a fat32, internal hard drive.

Nautilus also cannot use the trash folder on this partition, but permanently deletes.

OS: Ubuntu 8.04 (fully up to date)
Music Drive: Internal, SATA, fat32, fstab umask=001
Hidden (non music) folders: .Trash-[user]

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BHowell (mute-howell-ersatz) said : 		#6

I have the same problem on my system. The files are located on another ext3 partition outside of my home directory but on the same drive. I have permissions to read and write so it seems to be a problem with Rhythmbox's gnome filesystem connection. Can we change the status or do the devs still "need information"?

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Vancouverite (sethgilchrist) said : 		#7

Hi all,
I have found a solution to this problem. Please see:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glib2.0/+bug/192629

It is a bug in Nautilus concerning mount permissions. It is worked around by editing fstab to mount you music partition with your user id and group.

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