[SOLVED] Cannot empty recycle bin!

**ooobuntooo** · August 23rd, 2008

Cannot empty recycle bin, permission denied!

Over 30GB of stuff is in there, I want it deleted!

**iaculallad** · August 23rd, 2008

Originally Posted by ooobuntooo

Cannot empty recycle bin, permission denied!

Over 30GB of stuff is in there, I want it deleted!

On your terminal:

Code:

sudo rm -rf /home/username/.local/share/Trash/*

or

Code:

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

**sisco311** · August 23rd, 2008

Open a terminal and run the following command:

Code:

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER ~/.local/share/Trash/

then try to empty the recycle bin.

**thebigbluecan** · August 23rd, 2008

Can you open it and see the files? If so highlight them all and right click and "Delete from trash".

**bubba_169** · August 23rd, 2008

Try pressing alt+F2 and run 'gksu nautilus'. This will run nautilus with full permissions so be careful what you do in here...

When nautilus is open press ctrl+h to show hidden files and folders, then go to filesystem/home/yourname/.local/share/trash and you should see 2 folders named files and info. If you empty these folders you should be rid of those files in your trash.

If you have other partitions mounted you may also want to clear their trash too so go to the root of the partition, eg sda2 might be mounted at /media/sda2, and look for a folder called trash-#### where ### is a number. Do the same with this folder as you did with the others to fully clear your trash!

**ooobuntooo** · August 23rd, 2008

I tried all that, but none of it worked.

It says "Permission Denied" but the file permissions say I have I own the files, rather that the root admin.

**ooobuntooo** · August 23rd, 2008

Problem solved i did.

Alt F2 and typed "gksudo nautilus" and navigated to the directory that you told me about and deleted the files!

I worked thanks!!