Files in the trash

drinkymilk · 01-10-2008, 12:14 PM

I deleted a few files of my desktop, and when i try to empty the trash i get this error message saying:

Error while deleting
'/home/usr/ blah blah' cannot be deleted because you do not have the permissions to modify it's parent folder.

Now I have tried a few codes as root in the terminal. but nothing seems to be working. any suggestions.

P.S. the files I ham trying to delete are a folder of driver information i d/l from the web that I never installed, and compiz.tar.gz I never had o use.

~tim

wildcat22 · 01-10-2008, 12:31 PM

The user "usr" doesn't usually have a home directory. That said, it sounds like you are trying to delete someone's home directory. Which is probably a bad thing. I would check around said home directory for some soft links. They can be tricky sometimes. Something might have happened when you tried to delete that driver folder.

marciobarbalho · 01-10-2008, 12:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wildcat22

The user "usr" doesn't usually have a home directory. That said, it sounds like you are trying to delete someone's home directory. Which is probably a bad thing. I would check around said home directory for some soft links. They can be tricky sometimes. Something might have happened when you tried to delete that driver folder.

$ su
# chmod -R 755 /home/"username"

If machine is only yours, try this out:

# chmod -R 777 /home/"username"

"username" would be, for example, drinkymilk, /home/drinkymilk.

bahbahthelamb · 01-10-2008, 01:29 PM

Run sudo rm -rf /home/USERNAME/.Trash/*
Where USERNAME is your username. It'll ask for your root password, then it'll purge your trash regardless of lack of user permisions.

-Josh

drinkymilk · 01-10-2008, 02:52 PM

Thanks for the code!!

~tim