Empty trash as root

[Michael Rawson]

On 18/05/12 20:14, Keith Clark wrote:
> I copied a file, as root, into a directory but ran out of disk space.  
> I then deleted the files but that did not clear up any disk space.  I 
> click on the Trash to empty it and file manager throws up an error 
> 'not permitted'.
>
> Any ideas on how to clear this up without a complete wipe out and 
> reinstall of everything?
>
> Keith
>
>
"sudo rm -r ~/.local/share/Trash/files" should work. That's the location 
of the trash.