Trash is a Rust library that provides functionality to move files and folders to the operating system's Recycle Bin (or Trash or Rubbish Bin or what have you).
The library supports Windows, Mac and Linux.
extern crate trash;
use std::fs::File;
fn main() {
// Let's create and remove a single file
File::create("remove-me").unwrap();
trash::remove("remove-me").unwrap();
assert!(File::open("remove-me").is_err());
// Now let's remove multiple files at once
let the_others = ["remove-me-too", "dont-forget-about-me-either"];
for name in the_others.iter() {
File::create(name).unwrap();
}
trash::remove_all(&the_others).unwrap();
for name in the_others.iter() {
assert!(File::open(name).is_err());
}
}Version 2 would add list, purge_all, and restore_all that would allow for listing, permanently removing or restoring trashed items.
Development for Version 2 is currently suspended as I couldn't manage to get these features to work on Mac. Contribution would be very welcome.
An imperfect alternative would be to release those features for Linux and Windows both of which at this point have a more or less complete implementation of these features on the v2-dev branch. The windows implementation depends on a custom fork of winapi, because the PR adding the required features cannot be merged before winapi 0.4. I would like to merge the branch adding list, purge_all, and restore_all only after the winapi PR is is merged and published.