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After quite a long time and many failed attempts, I've managed to get Dolphin to "see" the trash bin on a partition it missed

Posted 05-29-2019 at 04:13 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 10-11-2020 at 05:02 PM by the dsc

For some reason, and I can't fathom what, Dolphin only saw the home's trash and two additional partitions, but missed another one. Even PCManFM-QT was able to see and use that trash partition, while files deleted there wouldn't show up on Dolphin/Konqueror (which wouldn't delete them when emptying), and files over there deleted from D/K would be dumbly moved to the home partition.

I'm sure that besides trying to create brand new Trash folders, I've even tried to copy (preserving...

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Replace trash-cli with kioclient move $@ trash:/ for cross-partition trashing

Posted 03-27-2016 at 09:17 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)

Tags trash

However arguable, some people want to trash by moving into another partition's trash folders. The linux/unix/whatever trash specifications theoretically prohibit that, but KDE's implementation doesn't. So a linked or bind-mounted trash into a different partition will behave normally, except it will move the file across, obviously.

If you also use trash-cli, which won't work with such hacks, it can be replaced with the kioclient command, that in turn can be scripted or perhaps even...

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How to Empty Trash in Gnome When the Trash Can Refuses to Clear

Posted 03-02-2009 at 11:32 PM by phoenixrising (Learning Something Everyday about Linux)
Updated 03-02-2009 at 11:52 PM by phoenixrising

Tags emptying, gnome, trash

Sometimes you'll find some files in your trash that just won't go away. And unlike what many forums say, the Trash in Gnome is not in the .Trash directory in /home (At least not in my Fedora 10 and Linux Mint). So this is what you'll have to do:

Code:

sudo rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/files/*

Yes, that's correct: the Trash folder is in /home/<yourusername>/.local/share/Trash

Quote:

WARNING: Be very careful about "sudo rm -rf" --it's a very powerful

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