How To Gain Access To Locked Files & Folders?

[~Plue]

@~Plue, im sorry im a little confused now, i still didnt delete anything, so should i be worried using drag and drop method, even if i do it carefully making sure i dont delete anything else but those folders?

again, its a wrong assumption on my part. if you follow yetimans advice, everything should be fine.

[yetiman64]

thanks alot yetiman and plue, it worked

You're welcome,
Cheers from yetiman64.

[dcsoldschool53]

@ dcsoldschool53, your first command will remove the trash directory itself not just the contents and you don't need sudo to delete files or folders in a users home directory plus the -f or force switch is totally unnecessary. Please reconsider it.

OP if you follow my first post but change the command to "sudo rm -r" (recursive switch for directories) those folders and their contents will be removed.

You are right, because the command is actually

sudo rm -rf  ~/.local/share/Trash/*

This will work. I forgot to add the * after Trash/. SORRY this will not delete the trash folder but it will delete everything in it.

[yetiman64]

You are right, because the command is actually

sudo rm -rf  ~/.local/share/Trash/*

This will work. I forgot to add the * after Trash/. SORRY this will not delete the trash folder but it will delete everything in it.

You are removing files/folders in the users home directory so sudo is not needed also the force switch is unnecessary so the command in this case should be,

rm -r ~/.local/share/Trash/*

You only need to invoke sudo if the files/folders are owned by root.

Just tested this here and it works .

[susanabra]

@ yetiman 64, Worked for me with some folders (directories) that were beginning to drive me completely mad! Thank you.

[wildmanne39]

Thanks for sharing. Thread Closed.