Trash is not accessible!

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#1

This has bugged me for a while, I googled for days and have not yet found a solution.
What happened: When I click on Trash in nautilus, it shows “Sorry, could not display all the contents of “trash:///”: The specified location is not supported.”
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What I did: I occasionally recover my system using backintime, I do full file system backup and recover except my home folder.
What I tried: I have Trash folder in ~/.local/share/, and I have /files and /info folders in my Trash folder. The permission is 700. I can use move to Trash from file manager, but I have to use terminal to go the ~/.local/share/files and rm to empty trash. I have tried other file manager other than nautilus, that I have the same problem, so it seems not to be the problem with the file manager. And I tried creating a new user, but the new user still cannot access to the Trash. So it seems to be some global setting.

Where is the setting that I can change the directory of my trash or get this fixed? PS: Desktop Environment: Gnome
Thanks

#2

Do you have ~/Desktop/trash.desktop and what is inside?

#3

If you want to see what’s in that folder, open the terminal > su -> nautilus> and follow the path> /root/.local/share/Trash/files/
Here you find the files you put in the Root Trash

I use bleachbit as root to clean that folder

#4

Why do you think the OP is talking about a trash of the root user?

That should not exist btw, because trash is typical for a desktop environment and as root you should never run a desktop environment.

#5

Never used gnome but have had a similiar issue with kde. To resolve that I deleted the trash folder as root and the system then created a new trash folder which worked fine.

#6

Because it’s like that, I have Gnome, and it’s always been like that.
trash: /// is like a link, and it’s trash when you start Nautilus as a super user … trust me

#7

Hi Frank, welcome

IMO you’re missing some points here:

  • Each user has their own /home/USERNAME/.local/share/Trash,
  • This Trash-folder is for that user only.
  • If you restore things from backup, make sure that what you copy into a user’s homedir is owned by that user.

I’d like to see output of


ls -ld ~/.local/share/Trash/*

and


ls -lh ~/.local/share/Trash/files/
#8
  1. you should probably not start Nautilus as superuser (but it might be a bit more acceptable then running the desktop as superuser);
  2. the OP nowhere talks about running Nautilus as superuser.
#9

I do not have ~/Desktop/trash.desktop, should I? I only have ~/Desktop/Home.desktop

#10

I only have one user. And Trash folder exists in my home directory.
Here is the my output:
ls -ld ~/.local/share/Trash/*
drwx------ 2 yili users 4096 Apr 8 01:08 /home/yili/.local/share/Trash/files
drwx------ 2 yili users 4096 Apr 8 01:08 /home/yili/.local/share/Trash/info

and,
ls -lh ~/.local/share/Trash/files/
-rw-r–r-- 1 yili users 149K Apr 7 23:05 ‘Screenshot from 2018-04-07 23-05-08.png’

Thanks

#11

I tried deleted trash folder, and right click any file, select “move to Trash”, then a new trash folder was created, which I can access through terminal or manually. However, the trash menu in the left of file manager is still not accessible, same error.

#12

Then this item in ‘Places’ does not point to something in your homedir. Right click it to remove it from the filemanager.

#13

I can’t. Those ‘Places’ are specified in ~/.local/share/user-places.xbel. And trash is obviously a specially one that is not even showing in user-places.xbel, thats why I can’t get it fixed, because I do not know where it is configured. You can only remove those ‘Places’ added by user.

#14

I can’t. You can only remove ‘Places’ that is added by user only…

#15

//youtu.be/q_q3so5ZI6k

So is it clearer?