Missing Trash [Solved]

[Christopher A. Lindsey]

On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 19:26 +0000, ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com
wrote:
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 19:03:07 +0100
> From: Nigel Henry <cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr>
> Subject: Re: Missing Trash
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <201012051903.08272.cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr>
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> On Sunday 05 December 2010 18:07, Christopher A. Lindsey wrote:
> > On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 20:55 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > Hi Colin,
> >
> > Thanks for your reply.  I have tried that and I just tried it again.
> > Here are the results:
> >
> > Total Filesystem capacity: 35.3 GB (used: 32.3 GB available: 3.0 GB )
> >
> > Results of Scan Filesystem:
> > Folder "/" Usage 100% Size 10.6 GB Contents 21 items
> >
> > So, it appears to me that the space has not been released but it is not
> > assigned to any files.
> >
> > Any additional ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chris
> 
> Hi Chris.
> 
> I had a similar problem like yours a while back when running in admin mode and 
> wanting to get rid of unwanted files. This was using KDE's konqueror in 
> superuser mode. I deleted, or thought I'd deleted the files, but they had 
> been sent to /root's trash bin, rather than being totally deleted. I found a 
> way to bypass root's trash bin later and got rid of the files completely.
> 
> So have a look in root's trash can at  /root/.local/share/Trash, there should 
> be 2 empty folders "files" and "info" if there's no trash, but you may find 
> your trash there.
> 
> All the best.
> 
> Nigel.
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
Hi Nigel,

Thank you.  That took me to the right place.  I was able to find the
files, change the permissions and remove them.

Thanks to Colin for working with me, too.

Take care,
Chris

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