Empty trash doesn't empty the trash completely

[Ed Fletcher]

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Giorgos wrote:
| On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 21:55 -0800, Ed Fletcher wrote:
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|>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.
|>
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| I do use a USB drive at times, but the files that wouldn't get deleted
| were not from that drive. Files deleted from that USB drive go to
| the .Trash.(name) in the same drive.
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That's true, but they still appear in the Trash icon at the bottom right
corner of your screen.  I thought that might be what had happened.

If that's not the case, then I don't know what's going on.

Ed
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Ed Fletcher
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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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