Just did a fresh install, V12.2 32-bit, GNOME 3.4.2, 1000 Mb, AMD Athlon XP 2800.
Logged in as a user, I insert a FULL thumbdrive (FAT-32) , the file manager sees the drive, and lists the contents.
I cannot delete a file:
the move to trash is greyed out,
a keyboard delete does nothing,
a keyboard shift delete does nothing.
I notice that, when I highlight the thumbdrive, then right click, properties, permissions, everything is read only.
When I try to change permissions to read and write, a pop-up windows says
Permissions could not be changed, error setting permissions, read only file system.
This is the same thumbdrive from the same windows XP machine used for a previous post of thumbdrive delete.
Doesn’t seem like anything shows up about it. Unless its further back in the log. You might try taking a look at it with dmesg | less. If you decide to post the log here, do it in pastebin instead of direct.
I now suspect the thumbdrive’s partition and or formatting was messed up from the very beginning, it had been heavily used, on many machines, a few airport scans etc.
Towards the end of “this thumbdrive experiment”, I thought it was broken because neither SUSE V12.2 or XP SP3 could see it or would format it, I almost threw it out.
Then I tried a Mac which let me partion and format. I can’t believe a freak’in Mac saved the day, but then again, it might have contributed to the failure in the first place.
Anyway, I filled the thumbdrive to 100.000 % capacity, the SUSE V12.2 file manager saw the files. It wouldn’t let me trash a file but offered to delete, which it did.
This makes sense because with zero space to make a .trash directory what options do you have?
The next attempt at trash succeeded, the file manager lists the hidden .trash directory.
Unless its further back in the log. You might try taking a look at it with dmesg | less. If you decide to post the log here, do it in pastebin instead of direct.