Delete file not working, error "Is gvfs-trash installed?"

[daaru00]

Prerequisites

• Ubuntu 17.10
• gvfs-trash is installed.
• ~/.local/share/Trash/files/ directory is present and writable, currently used by the system
• /.Trash-1000 directory is present and writable by the current logged user

Description

When I try to delete a file or folder an error is shown:
The following file couldn't be moved to the trash.
Is gvfs-trash installed?

Versions

Atom    : 1.22.1
Electron: 1.6.15
Chrome  : 56.0.2924.87
Node    : 7.4.0

Additionally, in Ubuntu 17.10 gvfs-trash is deprecated:

This tool has been deprecated, use 'gio trash' instead.
See 'gio help trash' for more info.

[daaru00]

I found a workaround, the problem was I installed Atom using snap maybe that version is not correctly build for Ubuntu 17.10, the solution is:

Remove the snap package

sudo snap remove atom

Add WebUp8 PPA repositories

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/atom
sudo apt-get update

Then install atom

sudo apt install atom

[chambead]

Issue for me was trash location didn't exist:

user@system /var/www/html $ gvfs-trash /var/www/html/some.file.php
Error deleting file: Unable to find or create wastebasket directory

Solution is simply to create the trash directory:

sudo mkdir -p /.Trash-1000/{expunged,files,info}
sudo chown -R $USER /.Trash-1000

[rsese]

I found a workaround, the problem was I installed Atom using snap maybe that version is not correctly build for Ubuntu 17.10, the solution is:
...
Add WebUp8 PPA repositories

Glad you found a workaround but just wanted to mention that neither of these methods is officially supported - the 2 official installations are with the .deb and and official Linux package repositories (recently-ish introduced), see the Flight Manual for details:

https://flight-manual.atom.io/getting-started/sections/installing-atom/

Also, as of Atom 1.25 gio is supported /cc atom/atom#15949 (comment)

[gustawdaniel]

@daaru00 your method does not work.