File could not be moved to the Trash

Question

hi everibody
thi is my problem
i can move any file or folder to the trash
the error say ("file could not be moved to the Trash")
I just reinstalled arch
ext4 is a partition in which I can not move the files but if I delete directly so something is wrong with the ntfs partition if you can but not in the partition of the system
I hope they can help me here's my fstab for what it's worth
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
[color=#FF0000]/dev/sda6 / ext4 defaults 0 1[/color] <---------------------------this is the partition
/dev/sda5 /media/Datos ntfs-3g defaults,locale=es_MX.utf8,uid=1000,gid$
#/dev/sda2 /media/Reservado_para_el_sistema ntfs defaults,nls=ut$
#/dev/sda3 /media/sda3 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 $
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
#/dev/cdrom /media/cd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /media/fl auto user,noauto 0 0
Last edited by akonerz (2010-02-12 01:49:26)

Answer 1

Well its kind of hard to decode your english (no offense! I'm just not sure I understand what you mean)
Let's do some tests.
First check if your user belongs to the "storage" group (have a look at /etc/group or open a terminal and as root type
grep <your-username> /etc/group
Youwill get a list of groups your user belongs to. One should look like this:   storage:x:95:<your-username>,hal
If storage is not part of that list, add your user to this group (as root):
gpasswd -a <your-username> storage
Next test: open a terminal in your users home directory and do
touch test.txt
This should just create an empty file named test.txt.
You won't get output if it worked, so you may check if it really was created with
ls -l
That will list the content of the directory. You should see test.txt there, probably other files too.
If this fails the drive is probably mounted read-only (I see no reason this should be the case in your fstab but better be sure). Btw. is it an internal drive or let's say external USB-Harddisk?
If the above works you know at least that the drive is mounted read-write and that you have write permissions in you home-folder as it should be.
Next Step: try deleting the file again witch
rm test.txt
and check again with the ls -l if it was deleted.
None of this will immediately solve your problem but we might get a hint what is going wrong...
If you get any error messages post them here.
Sorry but I don't understand what you mean with  "but I can not root as you can send files to the trash" 
You mean you can't become root at all or just that deleting the files as root is not practical for every day use? (It sure isn't that was just to test if the drive is mounted read-write.)