[Klug-general] Folder refuses to delete from trash

[Dan Attwood]

the actual trash folder is probably /home/heather/.Trash and you can safely
rm -r this. It will be recreated as next logon

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

Dan


2010/1/13 Rich <klug-mail at richayres2.plus.com>

> Good morning all
>        Couldn't  resist the awful Pun.
>        While emptying the trash can my Partner was left with one folder.
> The
> Folder is called NZ_Images_ (ask my partner why the last underscore). On
> trying to drag it to the desktop I got the message " Error while copying
> NZ_Images_. Not sure if the dot is just a full stop,
> Any way the folder appeared on the desktop and I used sudo rm -R
> foldername to delete it. The folder still remained in the trash.
>        Knowing my partners tendency to create multinested folders I tried
> this
> procedure several times with same result.
>        Can delete this folder as root from within the trash folder and if
> so
> how can I cd to it?
>        Properties gives location as trash:/// so I tried
> cd /home/heather/trash and /home/heather/Desktop/trash neither of which
> were found.
>
>
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