Empty trash doesn't empty the trash completely

[Ed Fletcher]

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Giorgos wrote:
| I've had this problem for a while, if I click "Empty Trash" only the
| files deleted recently will be emptied. There are ~90 files that don't
| get deleted. If I open Trash and delete them manually it works (so
| obviously I do have the permissions.
|
| Should I just delete them manually and file a bug?

You weren't using a mountable filesystem were you?  I had this happen
when I used nautilus to delete files from a USB hard drive and then
unmounted the drive before emptying the trash.  I couldn't get rid of
them except by opening a terminal, cd'ing to the trash directory and
doing it by hand.  Or by reattaching the usb drive and then it would
work from the panel icon menu.

Drove me nuts until I figured it out.

Ed
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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty or democracy?  -  Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

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