To Mitt Green: answers to your questions
Do you have gvfs installed? It manages Trash or Wastebasket. I have no idea what the question even means so I doubt that this is installed on my computer. How would I know?

Also providing a screenshot of how you can't delete something would be nice, if possible. I right-click and the pop up window has Cut, Move to, and Move to trash grayed out. I did another search for how to take a screen shot but that was another rabbit hole :-( After installing GIMP, I tried but it goes gray when I right-click and then when I click the Take Screen shot button the thing I want a screen shot of disappears.

For managing HP printers you need HPLIP. Do you have it? Yes, that is one of the things I installed 2 days ago and now the scan feature works but it still just prints a single line and then ejects pages until it wither runs out of paper or I turn it off.

After over 40 hours of chasing solutions down various rabbit holes, I am ready to reinstall 14.04 and forget I ever heard of 16.04. BTW, I have downloaded Linux Mint 18.0 and it would not print either. I was wondering if I lost my mind so I booted into Windows and the printer worked fine. I tried the 14.04 trial from the disk and it worked fine. I printed the test page with the information on it and went back to 16.04 to see if any of that would help. It didn't.

I appreciate this and the other suggestions - there is something weird about my computer is all I can think of.

Good luck to all of you who tried to help.

Tom

install this >>> https://www.linuxmint.com/

buntu 14 it is OBSOLETE !

Hi...

It's supported until April, 2019, I personally wouldn't consider it obsolete.

Regards...

You're welcome, glad to help.

I don't think it has to with your computer (the hardware) but rather some issue with Ubuntu and/or the upgrade process you performed. If 14.04 worked well for you and you liked it, then by all means, go ahead and reinstall that.

I would encourage you to modify your email address lest your email inbox ends up with a boatload of SPAM in the very near future.

Thank you for your kind wishes, may God bless you. Let us know how it turns out.

Regards...

Using a combination of several of the suggestions posted above, I did manage to reinstall Ubuntu 14. It turns out to be in addition to Ubuntu 16. I had also installed Mint 17.3 so now my boot menu offers Ubuntu 14 as the first (default) choice and then either Ubuntu 16 or Mint as alternatives. I could not figure out how to remove 16 so it just takes up space, but I can live with that. Mint is a really nice GUI by the way.

Hi...

Glad you were able to get it resolved.

Normally, Ubuntu and it's derivatives offer to wipe the hard drive and start over from scratch, along with (or in addition to) installing side by side. But since you still have 16.04, I guess if you wanted to, you could play around with it some more and see if you could fix the issue you were having.

Regards...