gnome trash cannot empty

Schrambo · 08-28-2004, 06:59 AM

Evening.

I"m having some troube with my Gnome trash bin. It works fine but I have a whole bunch of old files and directories that I cannot delete cause of set permissions.

When I try and empty the trash it reports

Quote:

Error while deleting.

"/home/schr...al_info.Po" cannot be deleted because you do not have permissions to modify its parent folder

Cancel / skip

These files are mainly program sources and binaries that i have deleted when logged in as root using the gnome terminal.

The question is, how do I get around this problem? its really annoying now because my /home is absoloute chockers and pretty much all of the trash was on my /home

thanks.

b0uncer · 08-28-2004, 07:05 AM

as root, do

rm -rf $HOME/.Trash/*

that removes every folder and file in it, and should not ask...if you aren't completely sure you will want to do this, or just want to check out and make sure there's nothing important,

cd $HOME/.Trash
ls -ldh ./*

and you should see what you got

so the trash folder is in your home directory .Trash

Schrambo · 08-28-2004, 10:29 AM

Thanks b0uncer, that worked great.