Trash bin not working

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Tuesday, April 18th 2006, 9:09pm

I'm running KDE 3.5 on Debian. When I try to delete a file from Konqueror by pressing delete, an error message pops up, saying :

Unable to start process Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'trash'

The same happens when I try to drag files into the trash bin, or right clicking in them and choosing move to trash from the context menu.
Anyone knows how to fix this?

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ravl

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Sunday, April 23rd 2006, 5:33pm

here's an update on the situation:
I right-clicked on the desktop, clicked on Icons > Align to grid. My icons arranged on the desktop and suddenly a new Trash bin appears. Yes, I have two trash bins, I think both icons were on the same place or something like that.
They are not the same though. One is the actual trash folder, the other one is a trash.desktop linked to "trash:/". Out of curiosity, I put "trash:/" on the Konqueror location bar, and I got the same error message, "Unknown protocol: trash". I think the problem has to do with that somehow.

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anda_skoa

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Tuesday, April 25th 2006, 10:09pm

Looks like a broken setup, either the KDE installation or a user specific configuration problem.

trash:/ should be the only trash bin (new trash implementation according to a shared freedesktop.org specification)

It works for me, also on Debian(unstable), KDE 3.5.2

Create a new user and check there, if it works there could be something wrong with you current user's setup, though I don't know what it could be.

Cheers,
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ravl

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Thursday, April 27th 2006, 3:14pm

OK, i'm thinking of reinstalling KDE from scratch. I just have a couple of questions:

- Will all my contacts in my addressbook disappear?
- Will my calendar be erased clean?

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bram85

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Thursday, April 27th 2006, 5:38pm

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OK, i'm thinking of reinstalling KDE from scratch. I just have a couple of questions:

- Will all my contacts in my addressbook disappear?
- Will my calendar be erased clean?

If you backup, yes. If you don't, no. All this kind of data is to be found in ~/.kde .

To be exact, your addresses are stored in ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc and your calendar in ~/.kde/share/apps/korganizer .

Bram Schoenmakers
KDE Netherlands (www.kde.nl)

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ravl

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Friday, April 28th 2006, 9:16pm

Final chapter

After checking all the KDE related packages, I found I had a mix between 3.2 and 3.5. Updating gave me dependency problems so I decided to uninstall it and reinstall 3.5. Stupidly, I did not back up my information as recommended by Bram.
But here's the interesting thing, I didn't lose anything. My calendar, my addressbook, my entire desktop configuration were there when I started the new KDE. I'm not sure if that was supposed to happen.
Also, the trash bin issue was solved.