Hi,
Emptying trash on my user account desktop, even small files takes up to 1 minute. With large files I am waiting up to 3 minutes or more. Delete works fine.
I notice that the other user account works normally and trash is deleted quickly.

I have the same setup on my laptop and it functions normally.

This account had been slow to respond at times until adding 'xhost +localhost". This improved things slightly? and I have trash deletion down to 5-6 seconds for a small text file.

Now if I do "xhost -localhost" and remove localhost from the xserver, trash deletion time increases 10-20 fold.
The addition of localhost to the xserver improves but does not really fix the problem. As the other account works OK and this problem is isolated to my user account I feel I must have changed something but cannot isolate the error. /var/log/messages dmesg reveal nothing and xorg.log.x does not exist?
Maybe I should reinstall X.

I understand that improperly set hostname or wrong DNS settings can slow the desktop down.

I have googled around and searched the forums but found nothing specific.

Any ideas?

Just as I return to this thread I notice that the Trash folder does not show trash. It always appears empty. This is new? So I need to fix the .directory file according to other threads. Will try and see if that fixes the problem. Maybe it's not server related at all. However I don't see a .directory file in trash even with hidden files selected?

I've read about this before, and if I recall, the person's computer was looking to get rid of files that were from samba shares. could your pc be looking to clean out files that you deleted off of shares, doing the look up's and all? anything in syslog, messages, or dmesg after you try deleting files?

Fixed.
I am not sure what I have done.
After logging into xfce4 many files showed up in Trash that did not show up in KDE. Thunar vs Konqeror.
I was able to delete most of them. Others refused because of permissions.
After logging back into KDE I was then able to remove the remaining files?
In hindsight many of the files in Trash were from Samba shares, but under KDE did not show up in konqueror at all?

Thanks.

I have a similar problem.

It turns out that there are files in ~/.local/share/Trash/files that are owned by root, and also missing a description in ~/.local/share/Trash/info. Maybe from an older version of KDE or another DE/WM I've tried in the past.

I've deleted them manually and I'll watch how my trashbin will behave now.

It's been working fine ever since...

I had slow trash empty problems as well. I looked in the folder and found a whole bunch of files with no entry in the folder.

My trash can (KDE) was showing empty, but I managed to clear over 3GB of trash by manually removing these files!!!

I will see how my system reacts the next time I need to empty the trash.

Finally got back to it. Same problem. Cheers and Thanks.

I had the same problem (on SUSE), both using and emptying the trash bin.

It was due to a network share (a laptop) which was mounted, but the laptop was switched off. I unmounted the mount point and everything was super fast once again.

If any KDE developers are reading this, please check this out, it's a bug! I can't see any valid reason why it should check network shares.

If you want to report a KDE bug, go to http://bugs.kde.org/. There's little chance otherwise that your bug report is taken into account. Also, check there first if it hasn't been reported yet.

I was also trying to delete some files 'into the Trashcan' in KDE, got an error message that this could not be done, as there were too many things there, already. I opened Trash from in Dolphin, but saw no files or any other items, there.

I thought, when the GUI fails, time to go to Terminal and see if that works. Opened the Terminal and typed:
then, noted it took maybe four or five seconds before the terminal prompt 'came back'. I thought this is good, it seems to be 'doing something'.

As a test, I re-entered the same command again, and now the prompt returned in maybe a half-second. From this I suspect the problem was solved -- although Trash in Dolphin looked no different -- still 'empty'.

Gotta be a record necro post. 12+ years.