Sharon Kimble wrote: > Thanks for this, and I've tried it out but its still not deleting files, as > I output it to a txt.file which still remain empty. Please say more. It works for me. You say it isn't deleting files for you. It is possible the permissions will prevent you from deleting files but in that case there should be errors from the command. Please provide an example. Start with this: find $HOME/.local/share/Trash -type f -mtime +7 If that prints files then adding the -delete option will delete them. Honest! :-) You say it isn't deleting files. Pick a file that you think it should delete but isn't deleting. Show the file and the permissions of the directory holding that file. The permissions of the directory is the important detail about creating or deleting files. ls -ld $HOME/.local/share/Trash/files/foo ls -ld $HOME/.local/share/Trash/files I think that there simply are not any files old enough to need to be aged away. I think all of the files are current. Since they are current they do not meet your +7 days of mtime age that you originally requested. A +7 mtime age for trash files seemed reasonable to me. > There is a programme, ported from ubuntu, called 'autotrash' in the repos. > And although I've set it up as per its man page, but its output remains at > zero, and not working. Probably for the same reason. Probably because the files are all current and none of them old enough, past your seven day threshold, to be candidates to be aged away. The 'find' command will be easier to debug. I would use it first to figure things out. Understanding a simple command is much better than not understanding a magical black box. > Maybe I'm going about this from the wrong end? You have help here on the mailing list for your problem. If you make good use of it then you can understand and solve your task. There is no need to give up so easily. Stick to it! :-) Bob
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