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

Diogo Böhm zeekay.diogo at googlemail.com
Tue Oct 21 10:19:03 UTC 2008


2008/10/21 Kipton Moravec <kip at kdream.com>

> What should be the directory structure under ~/.local/share/?
> Is there an easy way to fix this?



diogo at diogo-laptop:~/.local/share$ ls -l
total 2
drwx------  3 diogo diogo 424 2008-10-16 08:10 applications
drwxr-xr-x  2 diogo diogo 624 2008-09-18 15:10 desktop-directories
drwxr-xr-x  3 diogo diogo 984 2008-09-18 15:10 icons
drwxr-xr-x 11 diogo diogo 264 2008-04-22 23:58 locale
drwx------  6 diogo diogo 320 2008-10-16 08:10 mime
drwxr-xr-x  3 diogo diogo 144 2008-09-29 16:32 tracker
drwx------  4 diogo diogo  96 2008-04-26 16:56 Trash

This is mine.

I would take the directories visually out of the trash inside a new folder,
and then use "sudo rm -r folder" to root-delete the files.
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