Network Trash

As a PC user I never quite understood the concept of Network Trash, but my Mac users have beaten me over the head repeatedly with my own shoes to the point that I feel like an extra in a Monty Python skit...

This section is now a little deprecated, as Network Trash is working fine for me with 1.5.3.1, and the configure described on the configure page. I've left the explanation of how the Trash Can works however.

An excellent explanation of how it works, courtesy Brad Suinn:

Network Trash Explanation

You will have one network trash folder at the root of every
sharepoint. Within that folder will be a file called Trash Can Usage
Map which is used by the Finder on the client machine to claim a Trash
Can #x folder to use as the trash can for the server volume.

When a client throws a file on a remote volume away the Finder tries
to get a lock on the first byte of the Trash Can Usage Map if that
byte is locked, it tries to get a lock on the second byte and so on.
When it gets the lock it "claims" the corresponding Trash Can folder.
It then moves the file to be thrown away into its Trash Can folder.
When the User selects Empty Trash, the Finder will empty its Trash Can
Folder.

If the client machine breaks the connection via crashing or being
disconnected, the Trash Can folder will not be emptied. However when a
client Finder claims a Trash Can folder, it will delete anything that
was in the folder previously.
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(quoted from http://homepage.mac.com/suinn/ASIPBlackMagic.html)

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