If your filesystem is actually NTFS try to mount it with ntfs-3g instead of the one provided by the kernel with write permissions and hope for the best that security within the NTFS filesystem won't prevent you from doing that.

thank you for your time and effort but you are missing the point entirely and as usually i am no closer to resolving the issue

Why are you no closer? Do you need help opening a command prompt? Help using sudo?

You should be able to delete from /home even without logging in as sudo (which is a _bad_idea_ anyway).

You arent trying to delete the whole /var/backups folder are you?

The following comamnd should delete all the files in /var/backup-

sudo rm -rf /var/backup/*

BTW, from your screenshot I think you might be using a single partition setup....This sort of thing is one reason why its actaully better to have a 'proper' / and /home setup. If you do end up with huge logfiles/backups, you'll just get some error msg and wont fill your whole drive.....

hmm

get root ( I will assume you have sudo, and your user is allowed to use it )

if you still feel that you are short of space

Oh, and those files in /var/backup , are around 7mb

Yeah, but you can't let facts get in the way of a good rant...

Just hand the kid the razors and be on your way before the screaming starts.

wow how witty you are and i am guessing reading comprehension is something you did not master in school now why don't you change out of your pajamas and run and tell your mommy what a big boy you are and how clever you are on the internet and maybe she will give you a cookie and we all know you still live at home with mommy

i am just guessing that none of you read the entire post and just skim it 1 person came up with an answer and understood the post the rest of you told me everything i did not want to know why do you people make everything so complicated ?? the answer that partially worked was highlight hold shift and delete it did not work on all the files but some and thats all i wanted was a simple answer was that so hard ??????

thank you for the answer it worked on all most all the files i was trying to get rid of thanks again for your time and effort

I read the entire post, you wanted to delete files form here:
http://thumbnails105.imagebam.com/26...4268592878.jpg
You could not do this through the GUI. You then, in a later post, mentioned in windows you could simply right-click and send to trash.

I suggest you carefully state exactly what it is you are trying to achieve and why, as well as what you have tried and any error messages, when asking for help.
Computers are complex things but at their core they are very simple and things must be stated exactly in terms more akin to mathematics than human language. It takes a while to learn how to ask questions about technology but it's a skill worth acquiring in this day and age.
Apologies if I sound patronising -- that is not my intention -- I have used computers for most of my life and used them in every job I have had so I live with them daily. I also come into contact with people who have not used computers regularly or who have not trained to use them and, invariably, they ask the wrong questions or ask questions in a way that those of us who are familiar with computers do not understand. People here love to help with problems but they can't answer questions they don't understand and a carefully thought out question will help you get a carefully thought out reply.

The Shift+Delete option after highlighting has always worked for me, at least on all the Ubuntu derivatives like Zorin. If you have a problem deleting, the first thing you should do is to check permissions with either the ls -l command or by right-clicking on a directory/file and selecting Properties, then permissions. Also shows owner:group. If you are doing weekly backups, it would be a good idea to do them to another drive.

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I can't read though, apparently.

I do not believe the forum members who replied were making things complicated for you.

So a few posts ago it was 'no joy' and now the same answer is the only one that got you anywhere?

I would liked to have seen whatever error message yougot, just like syg00 asked in post #2.

That is also why I suggested in a consule command to delete the files...taking a screenshot and/or typing out the error message can be a lot more hassle than simply copy and pasting an error message from the console.

I'm a little cofused about how this happened, and the error message might have helped me or some other forum member figure it out.

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this is what i came up with to resolve my issues i downloaded and used bleachbit worked great and simple to use no fuss no muss

http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/