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bug#21340: 24.5; trash-directory uses FreeDesktop location on OSX
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#21340: 24.5; trash-directory uses FreeDesktop location on OSX |
Date: |
Mon, 24 Aug 2015 20:32:05 +0300 |
> From: Harvey Chapman <hchapman@3gfp.com>
> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 12:55:19 -0400
>
> I set "(setq delete-by-moving-to-trash t)", and emacs moved
> deleted files to ~/.local/share/Trash, the FreeDesktop location.
As expected.
> The files should have been moved to ~/.Trash, the standard OSX
> location. I was deleting files in my home directory using dired.
>
> Work around: (setq trash-directory "~/.Trash")
You need to customize that variable to point to the directory where
you want your trash. The doc string says:
Directory for `move-file-to-trash' to move files and directories to.
This directory is only used when the function `system-move-file-to-trash'
is not defined.
Relative paths are interpreted relative to `default-directory'.
If the value is nil, Emacs uses a freedesktop.org-style trashcan.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The default is nil, so what you see is Emacs functioning as designed.