Comment 6 for bug 216739

I've seen this before and it happened again. The trash function works properly, including trash icon in Nautilus places. This time I deleted all thumbnails using nautilus by selecting them all with CtrlA and using the Delete key. They appeared in trash. When I booted the next day I noticed I hadn't empied the trash so I use the trash applet to do so. It still says 853 items in trash. I double checked home and root trash which are both empty. I deleted more files and emptied trash again. Note than when deleting files the reported number of trash items didn't change. The only way to clear the problem I could find was to remove the trash icon and add it back.