don't have permissions on files I want to delete

drawde83 · 07-12-2007, 03:48 PM

hi,
I tried to empty my trash but it says I don't have permission for some of the files, how do I change permissions on them so that I can

rednuht · 07-12-2007, 04:15 PM

presuming the trash can is
~/.trash
(usually is)

Code:

sudo chmod a+rwx ~/.trash -R

that will add Read Write and eXecute permission for All Recursively in the home directorys .trash folder

felixc · 07-13-2007, 12:11 AM

Or since you're just going to delete them, save yourself a step by using sudo to delete the files as superuser.

Code:

sudo rm -rd ~/.trash/*

edit: corrected /trash/ to /.trash/