The waste-basket on my system contains a very large file (created by Audacity). Attempts to delete it from the waste-basket are rejected with ‘permission denied’ messages, even though I have ‘create and delete’ permission on the folder. I cannot delete the file with Audacity, because Audacity cannot ‘see’ the waste-basket. I cannot delete it from a command line, because I don’t know how to find the waste-basket from a command prompt.
Logging on as root doesn’t help, beacuse the waster-basket appears to be empty to root.
How do I delete this large file?
I know this’ll sound crazy but give this a try:
- go to your trash right click the item select restore
2.once it is back where you had it originally see if you can rename the folder & then trash it.
In the event that doesn’t work try this:
1.do step one above
2.see if it’ll open with kwrite if it does delete the contents of the folder using the backspace key, click save
- trash the empty folder
su
cd /home/username/.local/share/Trash
cd files
rm -r to all directories there
cd …
cd info
rm -r to all directories there
exit
exit
Well, that sure fixed it - many thanks.
Now I know where to find the waste-basket too!
How long do the *.trashinfo files stay around?
Regards
XEB
I don’t know for sure, but I think they’re only there for as long as the corresponding trash item is there.