<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Doesn't have to be, but you can't look at files until you have access to them and to the directories in which they reside. For your own files, there's no problem. For root's files or for those of other users, you'll get this message. I believe that Trash belongs to root. So yes, you need to use sudo (or change to superuser by typing su and inserting the root password, which I personally prefer) in order to see everything. cheers, pete norman wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:1194452396.6615.97.camel@localhost" type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Command ran, took some time, but as far as I can tell didn't produce any results? root@ubuntu:/home/jan# find / -name ?.trash? root@ubuntu:/home/jan# </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I tried it just for fun and got a great long list of permission denied. Thus, I presume the command line must be preceded by sudo. Norman </pre> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 687-6972 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:w.clapham@csuohio.edu">w.clapham@csuohio.edu</a> </pre> </body> </html>