### Virtual Method

# Gio File trash

#### Declaration

    gboolean
    trash (
      GFile* file,
      GCancellable* cancellable,
      GError** error
    )

#### Description

Sends `file` to the “Trashcan”, if possible. This is similar to deleting it, but the user can recover it before emptying the trashcan. Not all file systems support trashing, so this call can return the `G_IO_ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED` error. Since GLib 2.66, the `x-gvfs-notrash` unix mount option can be used to disable `g_file_trash()` support for certain mounts, the `G_IO_ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED` error will be returned in that case.

If `cancellable` is not `NULL`, then the operation can be cancelled by triggering the cancellable object from another thread. If the operation was cancelled, the error `G_IO_ERROR_CANCELLED` will be returned.

#### Parameters

`cancellable`

  Type: `GCancellable`

  Optional `GCancellable` object, `NULL` to ignore.

  The argument can be `NULL`.
  The data is owned by the caller of the function.

`error`

  Type: `GError **`

  The return location for a recoverable error.

  The argument can be `NULL`.
  If the return location is not `NULL`, then you must initialize it to a `NULL` `GError*`.
  The argument will be left initialized to `NULL` by the virtual function if there are no errors.
  In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated `GError`; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

#### Return value

Type: `gboolean`

`TRUE` on successful trash, `FALSE` otherwise.