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After upgrading to 13.04 when I click on the trash can icon in the launcher to view files in the trash gives the following error "Malformed URL trash://".

I checked and the "~/.local/share/Trash/" folder is present. I searched and the only hit I can find is about kbuntu issues. I am not running Kbuntu.

Thanks.

Exomancer
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Dolphin has a problem with handling paths pointing to 'Trash'. When launching the Trash by clicking on the trash can, the dolphin windows is launched with URL: trash:// which is not what it is expecting. Instead, according to dolphin, it is expecting the correct path to be trash:/ You may have (unintentionally) made dolphin the default file manager for opening windows. Undo that by following the steps below:

  1. Install exo-utils

    sudo apt-get install exo-utils

  2. Run it

    exo-preferred-applications

  3. In the Utilities tab, under File Manager, select Nautilus back and select close.

After that, try to open trash again, it will open correctly in Nautilus, not in dolphin.

Reference: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DefaultFileManager

Eric Carvalho
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Gaurav Kumar
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As a workaround, you could open "trash" with a file manager that does not produce the "malformed url" error.

For eg, create a "link to an application" on the desktop with

caja trash://

in the command field

:-) inspired from one of the answers on: How to open "Trash" through terminal?

Unfortunately, "drag-and-drop" doesn't work with this

G.A.
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