<div>the actual trash folder is probably /home/heather/.Trash and you can safely rm -r this. It will be recreated as next logon</div>
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<div>you could also try to install the trash-cli package. This will enalbe you to run 'sudo empty-trash' to empty your trash folder. You can also switch to root and run the command to empty roots trash folder</div>
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<div>Dan</div>
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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Good morning all<br> Couldn't resist the awful Pun.<br> While emptying the trash can my Partner was left with one folder. The<br>
Folder is called NZ_Images_ (ask my partner why the last underscore). On<br>trying to drag it to the desktop I got the message " Error while copying<br>NZ_Images_. Not sure if the dot is just a full stop,<br>Any way the folder appeared on the desktop and I used sudo rm -R<br>
foldername to delete it. The folder still remained in the trash.<br> Knowing my partners tendency to create multinested folders I tried this<br>procedure several times with same result.<br> Can delete this folder as root from within the trash folder and if so<br>
how can I cd to it?<br> Properties gives location as trash:/// so I tried<br>cd /home/heather/trash and /home/heather/Desktop/trash neither of which<br>were found.<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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