I just did a google on my little problem and found this
rm -fr /home/user/.trash
That seemed to clean out trash however checking the size of available space shows no increase in space. I had 24G free originally and despite deleting some 20G of folder/files, I expected to see 44G of free space available.

On 18/12/11 04:21 PM, John Lindsay wrote:
Since my upgrade to Squeeze, I have discovered ALL previous deleted files and folders plus recently deleted (since upgrade) show up in trash and I can't delete them. I get a 'file operations' window with a bar graph that says preparing but when checked -- everything is still there. There is some 20G of folders and files that need to be removed to free up HD space. Any suggestions?

John

Just checked some files and I as the user have only read only permission -- I know I should change ownership to read/write -- before I try this -- 'chown ve3sjv /Desktop/Trash' Is that where Trash resides and is that the correct format?




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