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Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 04:33:16 +1000
Subject: Re: Survey -- Move To Trash function in Python?
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 4:27 AM,  <random832@fastmail.us> wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2015, at 00:25, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> The main thing is that trashing invites the system to delete the file
>> at its leisure,
>
> I've never seen a system whose trash can emptied itself without user
> intervention.

They always grow to infinity on your systems? Huh. That's probably the
better option, but I've had to manage Windowses back as far as XP
recently (back as far as W95 but not for many years, fortunately) and
the system would very kindly remove from the trash... I'm fairly sure
the algorithm was either random or outright malicious, but it did
remove stuff.

ChrisA