why does /home/.Trash-0 contain duplicates of all of the user's files?
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why does /home/.Trash-0 contain duplicates of all of the user's files?
i've been trying to get rid of unnecessary files on my kids' computer and just noticed that /home/.Trash-0 contains a duplicate of the file tree of the /home directory, including all of the current users' files and subdirectories. is this something i should leave alone? the machine is running slack 13.0 with KDE, and this is something i never noticed before.
These .Trash-0 directories appear when root deletes non-root user files from a file manager. The 0 is the system $UID, which is zero for root. The directories are created any time a user deletes files belonging to another user account.
As fas I know, the .Trash-XX directories do not appear when deleting files from the command line, only from a file manager. I only use KDE therefore I can't say whether this is a KDE behavior or all compliant file managers. I'll take a wild guess that any file manager compliant with using the Trash can for storing deleted files will create these directories.
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