1GB Trash. Permission denied.

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Sun Jul 5 10:35:56 UTC 2009


2009/7/5 HermanAA <hermanaa at gmail.com>:
>
> I have almost 1GB Trash in Gnome 'Trash' (Desktop Trash)
> I am not allowed to delete it.
>
> I got this Location-info:
> trash:///
> Location: trash:///_RIKA-DELETE-OK%3F  (a folder in Trash)
>          trash:///_RIKA-DELETE-OK%3F/070614 (a file)
>
> I tried to do something about it via the terminal (cmd-line).
> But I cant locate 'Trash' (or it's contents).
>
> --how do I delete this trash?
>
> ... or how do I find the Trash (and contents)
> on the command-line, so I can do something about it.
>
>
> If I delete via the GUI I get:
> Error while deleting.
> There was an error deleting PC222481.JPG.
> Show more details:
> Error removing file: Permission denied
>    CANCEL    SKIP-ALL   SKIP
>
> And:
> Sorry, could not change the permissions of "P6141423.JPG": Operation not
> supported by backend
>
>
> Herman in Philippines.
>

Herman, I'm not home right now to check, but look in ~/.config for the
Trash. I think it's there.

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Dotan Cohen

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