delete file in treeview doesn't work when files are outside home folder

[buildcomplete]

right clicking an item in the treeview and selecting 'delete' doesn't do anything (except showing the 'move to recycle dialog)

• I have read/write access to the file, and I am able to rename the file...
• I am using Atom version 0.176.0
• Atom is able to delete files that are in my home directory!
• Settings myself as owner and group of the file outside my home directory ('/var/www/app_url/app/some-new-file) doesn't help.
• I am able to delete the file using the filemanager (Files 3.10.1)
• I am running Trisquel GNU/linux with Gnome (I can't figure out the version, but it's the one that comes with the Trisquel 7.0)

Reproduce,

• start atom.
• open a file so the gets some content in the treeview
• right click in the tree view and select 'add file'
• type 'some-new-file'
• right click 'some-new-file' and select delete
• Click 'Move to Trash' in the dialog
• Observe that the file is not deleted as expected.
• There is not output in the developers tool hinting the problem

[lee-dohm]

I was unable to reproduce this using Atom v0.177.0-e7b790c on Mac OS X 10.10.1. Here are my repro steps:

1. sudo mkdir /usr/share/test
2. sudo chmod Lee /usr/share/test
3. atom /usr/share/test
4. Create a new file foo.txt in the root of the project
5. Type blah blah blah into foo.txt and save the file
6. Right-click foo.txt in the Tree View and select Delete
7. Click "Move to Trash" button

Expected and Actual: foo.txt disappears from the Tree View and from the actual directory.

[buildcomplete]

I tried the exact same steps as lee-dohm (substituing chmod with chown...)
the file still sits there smiling at me :)

Also, I am not sure the problem is strictly kernel related, so a label of GNU/Linux would be more correct.

[ricardograca]

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 and I also can't reproduce your issue by following the outlined steps.

This is most likely a permissions issue. The fact that your home directory is not the typical /home/username makes me think that your problematic subdirectories are probably being created with permissions that cause this issue. Maybe there's a sticky bit being set?

[buildcomplete]

Hello ricardograca,
I have checked the folowing paths that was involved above
/usr
/usr/share
/var
/var/www
/var/www/app_url
/var/www/app_url/app
and none of them have the sticky bit set.
It is also possible to delete the file from the normal filemanager (nautilus).

by the way, my home folder is certainly in the standard /home/username

[ricardograca]

Sorry, I misunderstood. I thought that /var/www/app_url was your home folder. By following the exact steps that lee-dohm mentioned I was able to reproduce your issue on my system.

[buildcomplete]

Thats good then, the question is then how do we dig deeper into this issue.

I guess there is is a signal from atom that is getting lost somewhere, so how do we get some more info about that?

[Cipa]

Related: I can't delete files from a mounted ftp disk, on Mac
I mount my FTP with Transmit, click on a file to open atom, when I try to delete a file nothing happens, no error, nothing.

I can delete the file it I go to mounted disk

[mjohenneken]

I ran into the same issue. My files are located in a virtualbox mount. I noticed that deleting folders is also not possible. With rm they are removable.

[croaker000]

I have the same problem on a VMWare mount. Host is Ubuntu 15.04 and guest OS is Ubuntu Server 14.04. Atom is running on the host. The file will not delete direct from Atom but I can delete from the host's Nautilus. It does seem to be a permissions thing but seems odd that Nautilus works where Atom doesn't. The mount is SSH (sshfs).

Update: It seems that due to permissions, "move to trash" is not available in Nautilus but "delete" is. I guess we need an Atom feature to choose our delete method (move to trash trash or directly remove)

[dkniffin]

👍 I'm seeing the same issue on my Arch Linux box. No VM mount. The file is in a sub-directory of my home directory

[cbRoy]

Same issue here. Try trashing file from a terminal.

cd /var/www
touch 1.file
gvfs-trash 1.file

And you'll get the error Error trashing file: Unable to find or create trash directory

Solved by creating /.Trash-1000

sudo mkdir /.Trash-1000
sudo chown user:user ./Trash-1000