I can't empty trashcan.
 

When trying to empty trashcan, it shows the following message:

The last part $a...has strange characters squares, exclamation marks, etc.

Today, one of my students came to the lab with a pendrive full of these files. She uses win. We tried to delete those files from Lin but we couldn't. Now, it seems that one of those files resides in my trashcan and can't be deleted.

Any help will be very welcome. Thanks,
Glore2002.-

did your try rm with -rf options (r=recursive, f=force) ?
rm -rf /home/docentes/.local/share/Trash/files/*

Thanks keefaz for your help.

Yes, I've tried rm -rf as user and as root and the same message shows up when trying to empty trashcan.

Glore2002.-

Maybe try do the same with .local/share/Trash/info/
rm -rf /home/docentes/.local/share/Trash/info/*

Don't know if this is any use but I found a reference to deleting files with odd characters in there names here : http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/delete...de-number.html

Basically it involves getting the inode number with ls -i then applying that number to the find command as in :
replacing the inode number with the ones discovered. Probably a bit long winded if there are a lot of files - maybe you could script it if it's any use. Hopefully some form of tab completion, escaping or rm -rf'ing will work for you.

Yes!!!
It worked. Thanks keefaz!


deleting .../info/* did the change.

Glore2002.-

Interesting!

I have had this ame thing happen in my cyber cafe.

I allways asumed it was some sort of a windows virus that corrupted it.