Re: Can't empty trash

[John Lindsay <jclind@sentex.net>]

Well, I guess it really helps to do some digging -- found this
> find -name '*rash'
and it seemed to give me every instances where trash is located. I 
looked at each file and they are empty. I guess I was mistaken in 
figuring I could gain an extra 20G of space.

On 18/12/11 05:21 PM, John Lindsay wrote:
> I just did a google on my little problem and found this
> > rm -fr /home/user/.trash
> That seemed to clean out trash however checking the size of available 
> space shows no increase in space. I had 24G free originally and 
> despite deleting some 20G of folder/files, I expected to see 44G of 
> free space available.
>
> On 18/12/11 04:21 PM, John Lindsay wrote:
> > Since my upgrade to Squeeze, I have discovered ALL previous deleted 
> > files and folders plus recently deleted (since upgrade) show up in 
> > trash and I can't delete them. I get a 'file operations' window with 
> > a bar graph that says preparing but when checked -- everything is 
> > still there. There is some 20G of folders and files that need to be 
> > removed to free up HD space. Any suggestions?
> >
> > John
> >
> > Just checked some files and I as the user have only read only 
> > permission -- I know I should change ownership to read/write -- 
> > before I try this -- 'chown ve3sjv /Desktop/Trash'  Is that where 
> > Trash resides and is that the correct format?