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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jamiil said:

> ------------
> Error while deleting
> "/home/jamiil...m-build.Plo" cannot be deleted because you do not have
> permissions to modify its parent folder
> ------------

Who owns the file(s)?

>
> I tried deleting from the shell, but the file 'Trash' does not show in
> the ~/Desktop/
>

It's not there. It's ~/.Trash. A hidden folder which begins with a
DOT.

> What can I do to resolve this problem?
>

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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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
> DOT.
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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?).
Or try this in a terminal:
rm -rf ~/.Trash/*

Use "man rm" to learn what "-rf" does.

Good luck

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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/*
>
> Use "man rm" to learn what "-rf" does.
>
> Good luck

Yap! You got it Toyota!
It was a hidden file.

Thanks so much!

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