XnView Software

These are my Trash Properties:

Thanks, I just logged on to edit my last post to include that I am using Linux Mint Cinnamon 20...

Note that it is probably necessary to enable display of hidden files to view the menu I posted.

In some ways this does seem like a possible rights problem, but too technical for me, I just use Linux to avoid using Windows!

Today I managed again to get it working by first uncrossing the recycle bin, then restart xniew and re-cross the recycle bin. For a while it worked, but then the problem was back...
I can't imagine why.

Rainer

It's me again.
I still have the problem, that I cant find deleted files in the recycle bin.

Can't anybody help?

Rainer

The Problem is solved, finally:

In the Linux-Mint-Users board I received this tip:

> Benenne versuchsweise den Ordner ~/.config/xnviewmp um zu z.B.: xnviewmp.alt.
> Starte dann XnViewMP und schau ob du Bilder nun löschen kannst.

English translation:

> Try renaming the folder ~/.config/xnviewmp to e.g.: xnviewmp.alt.
> Then start XnViewMP and see if you can delete images.

And this worked fine!

Rainer

I was having the same problem on Windows. Xnview would always delete the file without using the recycle bin. I checked the option in preferences but it always just permanently deleted the file. Then I realised what was happening... my images were stored on a USB drive. Windows doesn't use recycle bin for external drives, so not an Xnview problem. Just sharing here for info.

I was very, very pleased, but unfortunatedly not for long:
After a time of correct function the problem is back...

Rainer

westwaerts wrote: Mon Jun 26, 2023 8:40 pm I was very, very pleased, but unfortunatedly not for long:
After a time of correct function the problem is back...

Rainer

And are you sure those images are on your main C: drive, not a removable drive?

My Pictures are on a Partition of the main drive, which I can reach as D: out of windows, if I need, or normally out of Linux as a partition drive named "Daten".

In the meanwhile the problem was back, I de- and reinstalled xnview over "Anwendungsverwaltung", now as a flatpak, and then the recycle bin didn't work at all...

Then I deinstalled the flatpak and downloaded and installed xnview MP directly from the xnview website as .deb.

And, helas, the recycle bin worked as it should!

But not for long: A few days after the problem was BACK!

NO deleted pictures in the recycle bin.

Does anybody know a solution, please?

Rainer

Any news on this? Still happening on Flatpak version 1.8.0 - after a while images just stop going to the trash/recycle bin. Happens running Debian Bookworm on multiple systems.

In the meanwhile I deinstalled xnview mp and reinstalled it in a repository's flatpak version.

First it worked fine with the recycle bin, but not for long, as before.

Now I found some strange hidden files named .fusexxxxxxxxx (xxxxxxxx= different numbers and letters) in the directory I deleted files from, and alas, these ARE the deleted files. I can open them in xnview.
Hmmm...
What is happening here?

Rainer

Finally, my problem ist solved!

It was NOT xnview's problem, it was a property probem in Linux.
I store my data files on an extra hard disk, which ist formatted as NTFS and is also used by a Windows partition.
In Linux this hard disk ist mounted automatically, but root was the proprietor and NOT user "me".
And so it was not possible to use the recycle bin for data on the extra hard disk. It was only usable for data on the Linux disc. And when I thought, it would work, I just had tried it with files on the linux disc, without remarking that fact.

Yesterday I found an explanation to solve the whole problem: With the help of that explanation I managed to change the proprietor of the extra hard disk from "root" to user "me" and now all works fine!

I can use the recycle bin for ALL my files, on the Linux as well as on the data disk!