From post 4 you show the below output which is incorrect and should be "/home/eric/.local/share/Trash/". What happened when you highlighted a file and did Shift+Delete? rm -rf ~/.local/Trash/* and the files are still there I don't know why you have a duplicate path or how that happened, shown below and referred to by oldfred. /home/eric/.local/share/Trash/files/3962403877/Old1/.local/share/Trash/files/.eteks/sweethome3d
Originally Posted by yancek I don't know why you have a duplicate path or how that happened, shown below and referred to by oldfred. I suspect the OP tried to use a GUI to delete the files again, causing a little recursion. Most file managers have an "Empty Trash" - or some locally appropriate term, in the file manager to clean the trash bins. Don't know if anyone already suggested using this or not.
According to man e2fsck, you need to use a -p flag (for preen, apparently) in order to actually fix the problems found. The man page does say that repairing is optional. sudo e2fsck -p /dev/whatever
Tried your suggestion and get this result chmod: cannot access '/home/eric/.local/share/Trash/files/2484184567/Halloweenpeanuts.jpg': Structure needs cleaning
I have made a backup on another drive and excluded the udeletable files in the Trash will restore from this drive and hopefully the problem will be solved. Thanks again for all the suggestions.
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