Undeletable files in Trash?

[raccoonone]

I have a folder in my Trash, synce-gnome-0.11, that I can't delete. When I click on Empty trash I get a permission denied error, and when I look at the file permissions I see that it's owned by root. How can I delete this folder? I tried searching the file system for the folder, but I can't figure out where the trash is stored, and hence I can't chown it to my username. I also tried running nautilus as root using "gksudo nautilus," but after doing that nautilus hangs if I try to click on the trash can.

[iaculallad]

I have a folder in my Trash, synce-gnome-0.11, that I can't delete. When I click on Empty trash I get a permission denied error, and when I look at the file permissions I see that it's owned by root. How can I delete this folder? I tried searching the file system for the folder, but I can't figure out where the trash is stored, and hence I can't chown it to my username. I also tried running nautilus as root using "gksudo nautilus," but after doing that nautilus hangs if I try to click on the trash can.

Try this using your terminal:

For User Trash:

sudo rm -rf /home/your_username/.local/share/Trash

or

For Root Trash:

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

[_sphinx_]

you can try he following command:

sudo rm /home/<user name>/.local/share/Trash/files/<filename>

[raccoonone]

Thanks! That's fixed it.

[roswellgreens]

EXCELLENT.... that worked like a charm--- UBUNTU 8.10 & 9.04

[Nkosi]

[quote=iaculallad;5271577]Try this using your terminal:
For User:

sudo rm -rf /home/your_username/.local/share/Trash

or

I tried several other tips elsewhere first, but your little bit of command line nailed my trash can problem in a flash. 50 Megs of junk are gone for the first time in 3 weeks. Awesome.

[credobyte]

[quote=Nkosi;7721359]

Try this using your terminal:
For User:

sudo rm -rf /home/your_username/.local/share/Trash

or

I tried several other tips elsewhere first, but your little bit of command line nailed my trash can problem in a flash. 50 Megs of junk are gone for the first time in 3 weeks. Awesome.

Are you sure that file and info folders will be regenerated ?

[cb951303]

they should figure out something about this whole permissions and trash thing. few days ago I've noticed my Trash directory is 20gb eventhough it's empty, turns out, all the files with messed up permissions stays in ".local/share/Trash/expunged" ...

[cb951303]

[QUOTE=credobyte;7721433]

Are you sure that file and info folders will be regenerated ?

yes, they are instantly regenerated.

[credobyte]

[quote=cb951303;7721614]

yes, they are instantly regenerated.

Ok, thnx ( haven't really dealt with these directories .. always using Nautilus )