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When I tried to remove a file in local machine to check files are synchronous with vagrant development server it pops up an error:

The following file couldn't be moved to the trash.
Is gvfs-trash installed?

For solving it I created a trash directory that can be accessed from outside the user’s home directory:

# Create a Trash directory (with some subdirectories) in root
sudo mkdir -p /.Trash-1000/{expunged,files,info}

# Give ownership of this to your user:
sudo chown -R $USER /.Trash-1000

Still I can't remove the file from local machine. But If I delete a file at vagrant development server it automatically deletes at local machine, opposite is not happening and ends-up with this error "Is gvfs-trash installed? "

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Like YuriAFGomes said, everything seemed to work fine in my system: trash folder had the right permissions and gvfs-trash worked flawlessly from command line, yet atom 1.45 said it couldn't delete any file. Tried to start atom with sudo and it didn't fix anything. Tried creating the .Trash-1000 directories in several places, and nothing, same error related to gvfs-trash. I'm pretty sure this used to work fine in my atom setup and suddenly it stopped doing so, and I have no idea why. I went to their releases list and tried downgrading to several of them until I settled with version 1.30, which doesn't seem to have this issue and is compatibles with my local packages. If you have this problem and tried everything said around the web, I suggest you try downgrading to different versions until the problem goes away.

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There is an issue on GitHub reporting this problem. According to the report, a missing .Trash-1000 can cause this problem, so you can create it as follows.

mnt=/; id=$(id -u); sudo mkdir -p "$mnt/.Trash-$id"/{expunged,files,info} \
  && sudo chown -R $USER:$USER "$mnt/.Trash-$id"/ \
  && sudo chmod -R o-rwx "$mnt/.Trash-$id"/

Set mnt to the mount point, where gvfs-trash is expecting it. Simply cd to the directory which will be opened in atom and execute df .. This will give something like this:

Filesystem     1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1      960380628 463122460 448403708  51% /mnt/vol

In this example, the mount point and the value of mnt would be /mnt/vol.

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  • Thanks! This worked for me, but I had to modify it a bit: `sudo mkdir -p /.Trash-1000/{expunged,files,info} && sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /.Trash-1000/` – Andrew Moore Jan 25 '20 at 20:38
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    This did not work with me on Ubuntu 16.04 and Atom 1.4x versions. – palewire Jun 15 '20 at 05:03
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What solved this issue for me was uninstalling atom via dpkg and installing it via apt from the following PPA: https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/ubuntu/atom . I have no clue why this works, though. I have noticed that the PPA installs atom 1.26, while the version where the issue arised, installed via dpkg, is 1.45.

Before doing that, I have tried creating the .Trash-1000 directories in root, in home and in project folder, with the proper permissions. gvfs-trash was installed, updated and working as expected all the time, but the problem persisted. Really odd.

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The real problem is that atom/electron are/were using gvfs-trash which has been deprecated for almost 5 years. Electron which is the platform on which Atom is built has fixed this in the development branch but hasn't backported it to the 2.0 branch on which Atom is based.

Solution/Workaround as of now?

  1. Use an environment variable $ELECTRON_TRASH and set it to gio or one of the alternatives
  2. See if you are missing the .Trash-1000 folder (assuming your uid is 1000)
  3. Install an alternate gvfs-trash script to take over the missing functionality
  4. Delete the file/folder outside of atom
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I had a similar problem on Windows using Atom, where I couldnt delete the files. So I resorted to deleting them manually from the directory (outside of Atom).

Turns out atom cannot "move to trash" if u checked in recycle bin this option: "Don't move files to the Recycle Bin. Remove files immediately when deleted."

Just set the other option (to move files to actual recycle bin) and should work.

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