Submission details
Recycle Bin confirmations
There's an option for displaying confirmation dialog when deleting a file to Recycle Bin. Turning off this option will turn off the dialog when user presses Delete key. The dialog still appears when user presses Shift-Del (permanent delete). Behavior is correct in both cases.
However, if there's no Recycle Bin on the drive for some reason (say, USB flash stick), "delete to Recycle Bin" becomes "permanent delete" BUT confirmation dialog isn't shown. This leads to accidental unrecoverable data loss.
Shell must detect cases when Recycle Bin is absent and ask user for confirmation even if the confirmation option was turned off.
In fact, the shell is aware of "absent Recycle Bin" situation (Delete File dialog is being displayed instead of Delete To Recycle Bin when the confirmation option is ON), so the behavior when there's no Recycle Bin and no confirmation displayed might be considered as a bug.
High
High
Not fixed
Discussion (5 comments)
Yes, and thanks for that, @eried. I tested your comment and filed as another suggestion here, so it won't be lost.
Where is this option to turn off that confirm dialog?
I was about to suggest this exact thing.
@balupton: It's in Recycle Bin properties.
eried wrote on June 8, 2008, 9:26pm
Yes. I posted this in other suggestion about the recycle bin as a comment. Drives me crazy when I delete some things in my pendrive without having an undo option as usual.