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i am trying to empty the deleted items but im told my permissions are wrong? i have tried to gksudo nautilus but no joy. when trying to change permissions i simply can not. any ideas. it is eating 10 gig of my HDD. thanks

witblits1970 wrote:i am trying to empty the deleted items but im told my permissions are wrong? i have tried to gksudo nautilus but no joy. when trying to change permissions i simply can not. any ideas. it is eating 10 gig of my HDD. thanks

Are you talking about your trash in your logged-in user?

nick, no joy mate.
daddy, yes it is.
just had a look and i was informed my action to delete the files etc was not supported in the back end?? whatever that may be.

Here is a post..please read the whole thing.. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=849919

How funny this is .... I just ran into the same problem today at work. Got it all figured out now. Seems as though they have changed the directory of the trash with Hardy Heron, I was used to it being in /home/username/.trash but now it is in (as Nick came so close to) /home/username/.local/share/Trash/files - so if you want to get your trash empty again run 'ALT+F2' then

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gksudo nautilus

browse to the '/home/username/.local/share/Trash/files (replacing 'username' with yours) and just delete whats in there. It worked for me.

---btw, I think a more direct way for you to empty it from terminal would be:

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sudo rm -r /home/username/.local/share/Trash/files/*

Give that a shot and see what happens.

sorry chaps none of the above worked for me! thanks for trying though

DaddyX3 wrote:How funny this is .... I just ran into the same problem today at work. Got it all figured out now. Seems as though they have changed the directory of the trash with Hardy Heron, I was used to it being in /home/username/.trash but now it is in (as Nick came so close to) /home/username/.local/share/Trash/files - so if you want to get your trash empty again run 'ALT+F2' then

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gksudo nautilus

browse to the '/home/username/.local/share/Trash/files (replacing 'username' with yours) and just delete whats in there. It worked for me.

---btw, I think a more direct way for you to empty it from terminal would be:

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sudo rm -r /home/username/.local/share/Trash/files/*

Give that a shot and see what happens.

that username command, did you replace it with your own username?

vinca, thanks for post, got it solved! i forgot to change the user name as per previous post and now it's sorted.