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

[NoOp]

On 10/16/2008 02:44 PM, 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?
> 
> 

>From a terminal:

sudo rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/files/*