Trashcan behavior seems odd

[Argyris Megalios]

L. Boggio wrote:

> Hi all,
> I'm a Linux newbie (and Kubuntu newbie too). I installed 5.10 a
couple 
> of weeks ago and started installing lots of things I needed, such as 
> Eclipse and other nice little programs of about 100 MB each. Not 
> surprisingly, the space on my root partition ran quite low (I
installed 
> Kubuntu in a 5 GB partition), so I moved programs up and down my
partitions.
> The problem is, I found a folder:
> 
> /home/ignazio/.local/share/Trash/files
> 
> that seems to be the folder in which the trashed files go until you 
> erase them for good. To my surprise, there were about 1.5 GB files in

> there, resisting my efforts to empty the basket, and all of them were

> files I deleted hours ago.
> Is this expected behavior, or maybe did I manage to put some switch
wrong?
> 
> Thank you very much for your answers, and please excuse the naivete
:-)
> Ignazio


I had such a problem once, and it turned out the information had been
deleted, but the files hadn't. So, I selected all the files and pressed
Shift+Delete, which deletes them without sending them to the Trashcan,
and it worked for me.

Argyris Megalios


	

	
		
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