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Old 01-06-2007, 12:13 PM   #1
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Emptying Trash


Trash can has about 12gig of trash in it and i can't get it to empty, or delete files.

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Old 01-06-2007, 01:23 PM   #2
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Look into your ~/.local/share/Trash/ directory. If it's full of unneeded files, delete it.
This happened to me before when I "canceled" deletion of files. Hope that helps!
 
Old 01-06-2007, 04:16 PM   #3
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On my system, the trash files are in ~/.Trash
 
  


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