Reconsider options for deleting non-empty folders?

[LeahJB]

I'm running JupyterHub on Kubernetes based on the z2jh tutorial.

There is quite a bit of discussion online regarding options for deleting non-empty folders (e.g. here). My understanding is that currently deleting non-empty folders works in JupyterLab if you have send2trash installed, but since we don't have "trash" on JupyterHub this feature is disabled and the best option is rm -rf when necessary (reference here).

We've been using this approach for a while, but one of our less experienced users has just accidentally executed rm -rf /* in their terminal and deleted everything in their personal file space, plus most of the files on our shared drive! Luckily we have some snapshots for recovery, but I think an "Are you really sure?" warning message in the UI would actually be less dangerous than rm -rf, given that many JupyterHub users are not necessarily familiar with the Linux terminal.

I guess an ideal solution would be some kind of trash/recycle bin, but I guess this may be tricky to setup for JupyterHub on Kubernetes?

[Dmitry1987]

it'll work if you'll patch the notebook itself, having same problem myself, solved only yesterday

jupyter/notebook#4916

patch the filemanager.py by deleting send2trash related code so it goes straight to delete. i can share a diff if you want (i use notebook=6.0.3).

[manics]

I'm closing this as it's quite old and it's a support issue. If you're still having problems please post on the Jupyter Community Forum. Thanks!