Deleting Trash can

[Brian Puccio]

On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 21:19 -0500, Jozsef Mak wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have hundreds of MB of old files  and folder in my Trash can and Ubuntu 
> doesn't let me delete them because i have no permission. How can i delete 
> these folders and files and how can i disable this permission feature 
> because it drives me crazy.

I had that issue once as well.  Not sure what created it.  Anyhow, as
root, go into the Trash folder and as root delete those files (I just
used sudo at a command prompt, though I guess you can always gksudo a
nautilus session and remove them that way.

The permission feature is just part of the normal linux filesystem, you
can't delete files you don't have access to.  Again, I'm not sure what
caused it, but the hiccup only happened once to me.

Maybe a "force empty" option when right-clicking the trash can that
prompts for the root password to take care of issues such as this?
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