Marking uncorfirmed, that works fine for me. Do you have files on a partition different of your user directory to the trash when that happens? What filesystem do you use?
** Changed in: gnome-applets (Ubuntu) Status: Needs Info => Unconfirmed -- Trash applet sometimes wrongly display "empty trash" option https://launchpad.net/bugs/72412 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs