How to empty trash?

Bob ubuntu-qygzanxc at listemail.net
Tue May 15 17:29:50 UTC 2018


** Reply to message from Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> on Tue, 15 May
2018 08:07:16 +0200

> On Mon, 14 May 2018 23:10:30 +0100, Peter Flynn wrote:
> >The solution to this is to find out where the Trash directory is
> 
> Most likely it's either $HOME/.local/share/Trash/ or it's a hidden file
> on top of a partition's directory named .Trash-$UID .

Thanks to all that replied.

I deleted the files in ~/.local/share/Trash/files, there were many files that
were not deleted because of permissions but enough was deleted to now do other
things.

Again thanks to all.

-- 
Robert Blair


You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. -- Adrian Rogers




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