Bug#863499: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#863499: Trash: sort the files/folders by "time of deletion"
Sorry, for this second message but I had forgotten to tell that, IMHO,
this is more an evolution request that a bug.
Best regards,
Étienne
Etienne Durup a écrit le 12/03/2019 à 10:31 :
> Hi,
>
> A few explanations...
>
> In trash with a lot of files in the root, accidentaly deleted files
> (few tens or more, for example) are quite impossible to restore if the
> files have modify dates varying over a long period (eventually
> unknown), except if they are sorted by deletion date.
>
> The deletion date can't be show with Thunar. Thus this restore job is
> quite impossible to achieve.
>
> Deletion dates are in files of Trash/info directory. For example, the
> content of some file "article-erwan.pdf.trashinfo" is shown below :
>
> [Trash Info]
> Path=/home/edurup/T%C3%A9l%C3%A9chargements/article-erwan.pdf
> DeletionDate=2018-09-19T16:07:53
>
> The third line is showing the deletion date and this date may be very
> different of the modification date.
>
> The fact that this deletion date is not an extended attribute of each
> suppressed file (or directory) is probably a complication for the
> programmer.
>
> Regards,
> Étienne Durup
>
> On Sun, 28 May 2017 21:42:21 +0200 Yves-Alexis Perez
> <corsac@debian.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, 2017-05-27 at 21:56 +0200, Christian Buhtz wrote:
>>> while viewing the content of the Trash there is no way to sort the files and
>>> folders by there deletetion date/time. So I have no way to find the last
>>> deleted files.
>>
>> What about sorting by modification date?
>>
>> Regards,
>> --
>> Yves-Alexis
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