I have a folder with other folders & files in it. I want it deleted.
When I empty trash it says permission denied.
11.1, Gnome.
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Open a terminal window (console), and become root with su command. Then
navigate to Trash directory, located in user’s home directory. Something
like:
cd /home/name_of_user/.local/share/Trash/
There are 2 directories contained here: ‘files’ and ‘info’. You can
either delete the directories and files with
rm -r * (take care to make sure you’re in right directory first)
or navigate to ‘files’ directory and remove the offending files with
rm -f …
(The directories get regenerated the next time files are moved to trash
anyway).
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william@linux-rb3c:~> su
Password:
linux-rb3c:/home/william # cd/home/william/share/trash
bash: cd/home/william/share/trash: No such file or directory
linux-rb3c:/home/william # cd/home/william/.local/share/trash
bash: cd/home/william/.local/share/trash: No such file or directory
linux-rb3c:/home/william # cd /home/william/.local/share/Trash/
linux-rb3c:/home/william/.local/share/Trash # rm -1
rm: invalid option – ‘1’
Try `rm --help’ for more information.
linux-rb3c:/home/william/.local/share/Trash #
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You need to make sure you are in the correct directory first (and take
care with syntax). The
ls -a
command will show whats contained within a directory. If you see
‘files’ directory, then do
cd files
ls -a
Delete required directory with
rm -r 1 (rm -f … for files).
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No, no it’s so confusing. Recursion, omg. 
The output should be
1
if you can’t see this file, make sure that you have typed exactly the
same commands as before!
No remove the file with:
rm 1
this is a number - one - not a letter!
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wgcrowder;1933232 Wrote:
> the name of the folder is 1
>
>
> william@linux-rb3c:~> su
> Password:
> linux-rb3c:/home/william # cd/home/william/share/trash
> bash: cd/home/william/share/trash: No such file or directory
> linux-rb3c:/home/william # cd/home/william/.local/share/trash
> bash: cd/home/william/.local/share/trash: No such file or directory
> linux-rb3c:/home/william # cd /home/william/.local/share/Trash/
> linux-rb3c:/home/william/.local/share/Trash # rm -1
> rm: invalid option – ‘1’
> Try `rm --help’ for more information.
> linux-rb3c:/home/william/.local/share/Trash #
There are a lot of spaces missing in what you type!!!
Take care. When you would have copied/pasted the commands this would
not have been possible.
Also I would recommend all involved very strongly to use the CODE tags
around this sort of coding (like ram88 does) to make evry character
readable.
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