Deleting Trash can

[Dennis Kaarsemaker]

On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 21:19 -0500, Jozsef Mak wrote:

> 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.

Could you please post the output of the following command:
ls -al ~ | grep Trash
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Dennis K.
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