Missing Trash

[Colin Law]

On 4 December 2010 20:10, Christopher A. Lindsey <CLindsey at garudallc.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm relatively new user.  So, go easy on me...
>
> I recently encountered a problem with my Ubuntu 10.10 system with regard
> to the trash/file system.
>
> I setup sbackup to do daily backups and keep 10 days of backups.  I was
> running out of disk space.  So, I copied the older backups off to
> another machine.  I then attempted to delete them from my system.  As my
> standard user account did not have adequate permissions I ran nautilus
> as administrator.  I was able to delete the files, however, when I
> attempted to go into trash to completely remove them I received an error
> and no files were displayed.  I did not capture the error message as I
> was to quick to click to try again.  I restarted the machine and
> reloaded nautilus as administrator and was able to access the trash.
> However, no files are listed.  But, the space that was allocated has not
> been freed.

If they are of substantial size, which I am guessing they may be as
the purpose of the exercise was to free up disk space, you could run
Applications > Accessories > Disk Usage Analyser, scan initially home,
and if necessary the whole machine, and look for a folder that is much
bigger than it should be.

Colin