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On Linux with BTRFS, NILFS2, and ZFS, it's not necessary to have a thrash, since these filesystems support snapshots. On CLI systems which rm without thrash, it's unnecessary complication to have a thrash just for qView, and clean it periodically. qView should have an option to disable trash (enable direct deletion) in the settings.

I am unable to delete files from an SMB share with no trash. This might be the reason. Instead of throwing an error, we need to issue a regular filesystem delete on SMB shares.

I am unable to delete files from an SMB share with no trash.

I am also unable to delete files from an SMB share, but it does have a trash, at least on the server side (It's just another Mac).

Anyway, if the inability to move files to the trash on SMB shares is what's preventing deletion, then I agree with @A9G-Data-Droid, as long as there a special confirmation dialogue. I can have a checkbox for "don't ask me again".

I can't believe this isn't in qView currently. If someone wants to implement this, just make a new action called "force delete" or something, absent from the context menu but present in the menubar, with a default keyboard shortcut of cmd/ctrl+del and for macOS cmd+option+backspace, or something along those lines. maybe you can add a modifier key to the QKeySequence::delete or something also.

I fully support this improvement. So deleting files on network drives would not be a problem.

We have a pull request that fixes this, #639, that's 18 months old. @jurplel not complaining, as i know you're busy and doing this for free. but i do think it impacts a lot of people, as new issues about this keep getting created.

We have a pull request that fixes this, #639, that's 18 months old. @jurplel not complaining, as i know you're busy and doing this for free. but i do think it impacts a lot of people, as new issues about this keep getting created.

Yes, I absolutely need to merge it. I'm going to try to update qView again in a couple of weeks, but I am trying to coordinate a move during finals week right now.

good luck on your finals!

oh cool i didn't see that PR, going to roll my own, thanks. and good luck on your finals!

Thanks. Will there be a release soon with this and other corrections?

Gonna try to make a release soon, yes.