How to Empty Trash if files in there are owned by Root?

[Kipton Moravec]

On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 16:47 -0500, Ulin the Tech Mage wrote:
> Kipton Moravec wrote:
> > I was running out of disk space and discovered I had a bunch of files in
> > Trash.
> >
> > So I tried to empty trash and found there were a number of files in
> > there that were owned by root, because of a screw-up I did when I
> > installed a program a while back.
> >
> > There are other files that are owned by me that will not delete because
> > they have the wrong permissions, but it will not let me change the
> > permissions.
> >
> > >From the GUI I do not know how to remove them. 
> >
> > I did a search on the name to see if I could find the path to the Trash
> > directory and these files did not show up. 
> >
> > What do I do?
> >
> >
> >   
> open a terminal
> run the following commands:
> cd ~.trash
> sudo chmod -R 777 *
> rm -rf *
> exit

It did not work.

kip at red:~ $ cd ~.trash
bash: cd: ~.trash: No such file or directory
kip at red:~ $ 

Kip
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Kipton Moravec AE5IB
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