I had some folders and files in Trash when i upgraded from 11.4 to 12.2. When I attempt to delete folders or files from Trash I get the message:
“Access denied to Trash:8029-MyTrashFileOrFolder”
Why would I not be able to delete a file or file in Trash when I am the owner of that file or folder ?
Delete them from a terminal with root privileges. They’re stored in the ~/.local/share/Trash/files/ directory.
sudo rm -f ~/.local/share/Trash/files/*
On 2012-10-20 04:56, eldiener wrote:
> Why would I not be able to delete a file or file in Trash when I am the
> owner of that file or folder ?
Same UID?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
Yes. The UID was not changed by the upgrade. I will follow the suggestion to delete the files from Trash as root.
When I go to the ~/.local/share/Trash/files for my home directory, as root, and type ls -l, there are no files there.
On 10/20/2012 06:16 PM, eldiener wrote:
> When I go to the ~/.local/share/Trash/files for my home directory, as
> root, and type ls -l, there are no files there.
then root’s trash is empty…
that is, when as root you go to ~/.local/share/Trash/files/ you will be
looking in root’s home (~/) and at root’s trash…
but, what do you see if (as root) you do:
ls - l /home/[yourID]/.local/share/Trash/files/
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dd
If you opened a terminal in your user session, then did
cd ~/.local/share/Trash/files/
ls -l
If some/all of the files can’t be deleted (because you’re not the owner), you can remove as instructed before.
The files directory is empty. Whether I try ls -l as root or as my own signon, there are no files in the directory.
Yet when I opne Dolphin and click on the Trash folder in the Places view, Trash shows two entire directory structures which i had previously deleted.
I did a ‘find’ for the directories showing in Trash, found them in my file system, and deleted them as root.