[Klug-general] Folder refuses to delete from trash

[George Prowse]

On 13/01/2010 09:25, Rich wrote:
> 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.
>
locate NZ_Images
rm -rf path/to/NZ_Images

if that doesn't work:

mv path/to/NZ_Images /dev/null