How to move my Trash into /tmp

Question

I rarely use Trash.(I use Shift+Delete) But recently, I found I often remove some important files by mistake. So I want to use Trash now.

But as we all know, my limited disk space will be filled with files in Trash if I don't clear the Trash by myself.

So I have an idea. I want to move my Trash into /tmp , so that I won't have to clear it by myself.

I wrote some code into ~/.bash_profile like this:

mkdir /tmp/my-trash

I made a symbol link pointing to /tmp/my-trash. I removed the directory ~/.local/share/Trash/files, and moved my symbol link into ~/.local/share/Trash, and renamed it into files.

But it doesn't work! I put some files into /tmp/my-trash ,clicked the Trash icon in the lower right corner. But there is nothing. I chose a file and pressed Delete , but it said that it cannot move the file into Trash and asked me to permanent remove the file.

Why?

Answer 1

Why don't you use another approach:

Crontab combined with command line client for trash

• Install trash-cli / sudo apt-get install trash-cli wich will allow you to control your trash folder from shell.
• Open you crontab with crontab -e in shell (will open your default shell editor chosen by select-editor)

• Add an entry like

  # In your crontab
  @reboot    empty-trash > /dev/null
  

Now on every reboot your trash will be emptied. You can specify other times to empty trash. Just look at a crontab tutorial to learn how.