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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: libtrash ?
From:       Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer () gmx ! de>
Date:       2002-10-04 12:26:53
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On Wednesday 02 October 2002 20:41, Dominique Devriese wrote:
> Alexander Kellett writes:
> > i'd prefer for this (or rather versioning) to be in my favourite fs
> > personally. but thats not gonna happen for a while so i'll stop
> > dreaming.
>
> One problem with this approach is that you can't discriminate between
> stuff the user deleted himself and stuff that a program deletes like
> temporary files etc.  I'd think that you would end up with a lot of
> nonsense in your trash bin with this library..
> cheers
> domi

For ext2 there's a possibility to undelete recently removed files;
Midnight Commander is using it as a virtual file system ("undel:", if I 
remember correctly). Can't we add support for this as a start (OK, only for 
ext2 and thus, LINUX...)?

Josef


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