Wastebin reporting "Malformed URL"

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Using KDE 3.4.2 on Mandriva 2006

 

Whenever I doubleclick the wastebin (to see its contents) I get a malformed URL message - see the attachment below. Now what's weird is that if I use Konq to go to trash:/ then it'll display its contents with no problem. The wastebin icon will also work to empty it's self and everything else - it's only if I doubleclick or right-click/open that the message appears.

 

It's been going on for a few months - I can't for the life of me remember if there was anything that I did before that could have caused it.

 

Had a look around and the only suggestion seems to be to transfer everything to a new user profile...which is a lot of work for a problem that is relatively minor and has a work around...soo any suggestions?

 

Thanks in advance.

[Steve Scrimpshire]

Change the url in the properties window to trash://

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:(

 

Says "malformed URL trash://", sorry

[ianw1974]

If you change the url to just:

 

trash:/

 

does it work any better, instead of the trash:// mentioned above?

[foot]

Nope,

 

That's what it was originally set to..just set it back and it's the same as in the screenie.

 

No worries, it's hardly world-ending stuff. Just one of those little annoyances :)

[ianw1974]

You could always re-create the desktop entry, and see if it helps versus the old one. Maybe leave the existing one for the time being, and create a duplicate, and see if it works, then delete the old one after.

[foot]

Hmm..doesn't make any difference. I checked the root account and the wastebin is working there so I copied it over to the user account. The desktop entry for the normal user account is:

 

[Desktop Entry]
Comment=Contains removed files
EmptyIcon=trashcan_empty
Encoding=UTF-8
Icon=trashcan_full
Name=Wastebin
Name[en_GB]=Wastebin
Type=Link
URL=trash:/

 

and the root account one is the same, except it isn't localised language-wise - i.e. there are 'Name' and 'Comments' entries for all languages.

 

The fact that the root account wastebin works fine does suggest to me that the user account has, to use a technical term, crapped up..grr! :(

[scarecrow]

Create a new user account, log to it and see if the trashbin works... if it does, then some KDE VFS setting in your former user account is borked, maybe it isn't too hard to spot it...