can't delete file from the file explorer

[lpuglia]

Description

Once upon a time (Jupyterlab < 4.0.0) i was able to remove files directly from the file explorer, right click and then Delete option. Since I updated to the newer versions i'm not able anymore, whenever i press the delete option i get the following message:

It is clear to me why this is happening: my user doesn't have permission to create a folder into /local_storage0, but this was not happening in the past. Is there a way to force the old behavior or change where the trash folder is created?

Reproduce

click the Delete button:

Expected behavior

To delete the file, duh.

Context

• Operating System and version: Ubuntu 22.04
• Browser and version: Any
• JupyterLab version: >4.0.0

[krassowski]

Other issues where similar problems with send2trash were mentioned:

• Failure to delete file because send2trash is navigating to root folder of a volume #3793
• can't delete file in jupyterlab  #15234
• file deletion fails: invalid cross-device link #5781

Ultimately, this is a problem in send2trash implementation or usage. While this is a bug that needs to be addressed in the Jupyter stack, the code for send2trash integration does not live in JupyterLab repository but in jupyter_server. The most recent relevant issue in jupyter-server is: jupyter-server/jupyter_server#1338. You can workaround this by disabling sending files to trash with FileContentsManager.delete_to_trash=False option/traitlet (see https://jupyter-server.readthedocs.io/en/latest/users/configuration.html and https://jupyter-server.readthedocs.io/en/latest/other/full-config.html#other-full-config).

[lpuglia]

Other issues where similar problems with send2trash were mentioned:

• Failure to delete file because send2trash is navigating to root folder of a volume #3793
• can't delete file in jupyterlab  #15234
• file deletion fails: invalid cross-device link #5781

Ultimately, this is a problem in send2trash implementation or usage. While this is a bug that needs to be addressed in the Jupyter stack, the code for send2trash integration does not live in JupyterLab repository but in jupyter_server. The most recent relevant issue in jupyter-server is: jupyter-server/jupyter_server#1338. You can workaround this by disabling sending files to trash with FileContentsManager.delete_to_trash=False option/traitlet (see https://jupyter-server.readthedocs.io/en/latest/users/configuration.html and https://jupyter-server.readthedocs.io/en/latest/other/full-config.html#other-full-config).

just tried the suggested workaround, i was only able to find c.FileContentsManager.delete_to_trash into .jupyter/jupyter_notebook_config.py, but setting:

jupyter_notebook_config.py:c.FileContentsManager.delete_to_trash = True

didn't worked, any help?

[krassowski]

jupyter_notebook_config → jupyter_server_config (https://jupyter-server.readthedocs.io/en/latest/users/configuration.html and https://jupyter-server.readthedocs.io/en/latest/operators/migrate-from-nbserver.html)

Edit: it also should be False not True

[lpuglia]

Edit: it also should be False not True

This actually worked