Delete-to-trash doesn't work on mapped drives

ThiefMaster · Post by *ThiefMaster » 2016-01-02, 20:56 UTC

I mapped a drive letter to a folder using the persistent method described here: http://superuser.com/questions/29072/how-to-make-subst-mapping-persistent-across-reboots (registry entry in [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\DOS Devices]).

This works perfectly fine for pretty much everything, but when deleting a file using TC from such a drive it always deletes even if TC is configured to delete to trash. On a regular disk deleting to trash works fine.

karlchen · Post by *karlchen » 2016-01-03, 11:17 UTC

Hello, ThiefMaster.

Does Explorer delete to trash when deleting files or folders from the mapped drives?
If Explorer does, but TC does not, you may want to check that TC has been configured to use the Windows Explorer delete method.
(The default is not to use it, because the TC method is more flexible.)

Cheers,
Karl

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2016-01-04, 11:38 UTC

TC does not support deleting to trash on network drives. Windows itself usually doesn't support it. There are some hacks which make it work in Windows, but TC doesn't support them because I couldn't find a way to detect them.

ThiefMaster · Post by *ThiefMaster » 2016-01-04, 11:40 UTC

In this case it's not really a network drive (it's listed like the normal drive, even the drive's displayed name is the same).

Maybe TC could actually read that registry key and treat such drives like the underlying folders?

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2016-01-04, 16:02 UTC

ThiefMaster,
I've tried to subst some folder, and even Windows Explorer doesn't support deleting to recycle bin in such drives so I don't think it is a TC problem.

Dalai · Post by *Dalai » 2016-01-04, 17:01 UTC

IIRC, back in the Win9x days substed drives were seen as network drives by the OS. Maybe that's still the case today, in some aspects at least, here delete confirmation.

Regards
Dalai

ThiefMaster · Post by *ThiefMaster » 2016-01-19, 18:58 UTC

I don't think the registry entry is comparable to the "real" subst.exe

Anyway, I just checked it myself and you are right, explorer also doesn't support trash deletion for it.

It would still be a nice TC feature to support deletion for this (read the registry key and if it's a mapped drive use the "real" path for deletion)