not possible to empty trash

hello,

I have some folders in trash; I tried to remove them but seems that I’ve no permission to do it as they was created in root account.
So, I went in root account but the trash is empty…
I’m not able to find these folders to change their permissions or delete them.
Could someone hel me out?

thanks

Hi
I’m assuming there in your user account? If so they will be down in
~/.local/share/Trash, so open a terminal (gnome-terminal or konsole) and
use;


sudo rm ~/.local/share/Trash/files/*
sudo rm ~/.local/share/Trash/info/*


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Thanks Malcolm,

The “terminal manouvre” didn’t really work but from the root account I went in /.local/share/trash and I changed trashed files permissions manually.
So I came back to my user account and deleted definitively the files.
Thanks for the hint.:slight_smile:

opensuserxxx wrote:
> The “terminal manouvre” didn’t really work but from the root account I
> went in /.local/share/trash and I changed trashed files permissions
> manually.

do not log into KDE/Gnome/XFCE/etc as root…

it is likely the reason you couldn’t empty your trash as
yourself is because of an earlier sign in as root!

read more:
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Login_as_root
http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase-runtime/userguide/root.html
http://tinyurl.com/6ry6yd
http://tinyurl.com/ydbwssh


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