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Re: Cannot empty trash because of permission problems

Merciadri Luca ha scritto:

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Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be> writes:


Hello,

On my Debian Lenny, I am unable to empty the trash because of
permission problems. For example, I have a .jar file, and when I
choose to "Empty Trash," I receive:

"Error while deleting.
"/home/merci...4-1131.jar" cannot be deleted because you do not have
permissions to modify its parent folder."

Where is the trash folder located in my /home/?

Thanks.
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Merciadri Luca
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Thanks for your answers. It must be obvious, but how do you empty the
trash in a terminal? Do I have to delete the specified folder (if
any)?

Thanks.
- -- Merciadri Luca 
See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/



if you *really* have to:
$ cd ~/.local/share/Trash/files
$ ls
$ rm -fr *
... that is, what you posted before, I don't think there's a special command. You may put that in a script if you like the idea (remember to check that chdir succeeds...), but if I were you I'd try to fix the permission problem: does it happen with every file? can you reproduce it with a new file? If yes - what are the permissions of ~/.local/share/Trash? and so on
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