On this can you can tell &xwp; which drives should be supported by the trash can. See the &xwp; User Guide for an introduction to the trash can functionality.

Press "Undo" to restore the settings that were in use before you opened this settings page.

Press "Default" to restore the settings to the installation state. This will re-scan drives (see the note below).

A drive is "supported" by the trash can if it appears in the right list box. This means that the trash can will accept objects from this drive.

A drive is "unsupported" by the trash can if it appears in the left list box. The trash can will then refuse to accept objects from this drive and only allow you to "truly" delete objects from this drive (i.e. the operation cannot be undone).

Even though they are not listed on this page, drives A: and B: are always unsupported.

The trash can has been extensively tested with the FAT, HPFS, and JFS file systems, which are supported by OS/2 by default. You should be careful to use the trash can with other file systems which are supplied by third parties, especially if these file systems do not support hidden directories or extended attributes. Great care should be taken with the EXT2FS (Linux) and VFAT (Windows 95) file systems, if you have drivers for those installed.

See "File systems" for introductory information about file systems.

Note: Problems have been encountered with VFAT drives (using the VFAT.IFS driver by Daniel Steiner) because apparently that driver doesn't support hidden directories very well. You should disable support for those drives.

To change the trash can support for a drive, select it from the left or right list box and press the "Add" or "Remove" button.

Note: If drive letters have changed since the trash can has been initially installed, this is not automatically reflected by this page. To have all drives rescanned, press the "Default" button and reconfigure drive support.