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Error while deleting
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| jamiil 2007-05-15, 7:13 pm |
| Hello folks, I am having problems emptying the Trash can in my Debian-
Etch box, I right-click on the icon and select Empty Trash and after
asking me if I really, really, really want to empty delete all the
files I get the following message:
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Error while deleting
"/home/jamiil...m-build.Plo" cannot be deleted because you do not have
permissions to modify its parent folder
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I tried deleting from the shell, but the file 'Trash' does not show in
the ~/Desktop/
What can I do to resolve this problem?
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| sk8-365 2007-05-16, 1:14 am |
| jamiil said:
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> Error while deleting
> "/home/jamiil...m-build.Plo" cannot be deleted because you do not have
> permissions to modify its parent folder
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Who owns the file(s)?
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> I tried deleting from the shell, but the file 'Trash' does not show in
> the ~/Desktop/
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It's not there. It's ~/.Trash. A hidden folder which begins with a
DOT.
> What can I do to resolve this problem?
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Open a ternimal, do
ls -l .Trash/*
and see what is owned by who and have that user delete the file
(root?).
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sk8-365
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| AJackson 2007-05-17, 1:14 am |
| On May 16, 5:36 am, sk8-365 <sk8-...@sk8r.invalid.org> wrote:
> jamiil said:
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> Who owns the file(s)?
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> It's not there. It's ~/.Trash. A hidden folder which begins with a
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> Open a ternimal, do
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> ls -l .Trash/*
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> and see what is owned by who and have that user delete the file
> (root?).
Or try this in a terminal:
rm -rf ~/.Trash/*
Use "man rm" to learn what "-rf" does.
Good luck
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| jamiil 2007-05-17, 7:14 pm |
| On May 16, 9:54 pm, AJackson <anders.jack...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 16, 5:36 am, sk8-365 <sk8-...@sk8r.invalid.org> wrote:
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> Or try this in a terminal:
> rm -rf ~/.Trash/*
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> Use "man rm" to learn what "-rf" does.
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> Good luck
Yap! You got it Toyota!
It was a hidden file.
Thanks so much!
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