I loaded Thunar file explorer from command line under root to easily delete som folders my normal account diddnt have permissions to on another hard drive. And then that folder poped up at the base directory of that hard drive next to lost+found, and it has root permissions. It seems to be the trash folder, but I dont remember seeing it before, and why would it be in that directory on that HD? Ive deleted things on my main HD with root before and dont remember ever seeing that.

Thanks.

nothing to worry about, i am pretty sure that is where xfce keeps trash before it is permanently deleted...

Here's what KDE's doing on my box.

My home directory's on a separate partition from the root partition. That's the key.

If I send something from /downloads, which is on the root partition, and which my regular user has permission to read/write in, to the trash, it goes in /.Trash-1000 (guess what my UID is). But if I send something to the trash from my regular user directory, it goes in ~/.local/share/Trash.

Likewise, if I log in as root and trash something from within my normal user account (which, again, is on a separate partition), it goes in /home/.Trash-0 (guess what the UID of root is). Otherwise, regular root trash goes in /root/.local/share/Trash.