# \--drive-trashed-only weird occurrence

**URL:** <https://forum.rclone.org/t/drive-trashed-only-weird-occurrence/11066>\
**Category:** Help and Support\
**Created:** [July 30, 2019, 11:11pm UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/drive-trashed-only-weird-occurrence/11066 "2019-07-30T23:11:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![ncw](https://forum.rclone.org/user_avatar/forum.rclone.org/ncw/32/18_2.png) [@ncw](https://forum.rclone.org/u/ncw)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 1:11pm UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/drive-trashed-only-weird-occurrence/11066/14 "2019-08-01T13:11:19Z")

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> [@bulls23ant](#):
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> I guess the --drive-trashed-only flag doesn't apply to the purge command?

I just had a look at the code.

You are right, purge will trash everything in the directory regardless of whether it is trashed or not. It says to google "trash this directory" in a single call.

So using `--drive-trashed-only` with Purge is likely not to work as the user expects! What I can do is make Purge exit with an error if it is called with `--drive-trashed-only`. Can you please make a [new issue on github](https://github.com/ncw/rclone/issues/new/choose) about this and I'll make the fix - thanks!

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