How to Empty Trash if files in there are owned by Root?
Kipton Moravec
kip at kdream.com
Tue Oct 21 13:15:48 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 08:19 -0200, Diogo Böhm wrote:
> 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.
I open up the trash folder in Gnome and when I try to cut and paste to
another directory I get permission denied.
I can not delete them in the Gnome Trash folder, again permission
denied.
I can not see them in the ~/.local/share/Trash/files folder. It is
empty.
What to do?
Kip
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Kipton Moravec AE5IB
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