I have 3 folders which will not delete from the deleted items folder.
Could some kind person tell me why and how to remove them, please.

Norman


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On Tue, 13 May 2008 11:39:59 +0100
norman <norman@littletank.org> wrote:

> I have 3 folders which will not delete from the deleted items folder.
> Could some kind person tell me why and how to remove them, please.

How are you trying to delete them? What error message is popping up?

At a guess, I'd say the problem is ownership - can you delete them as root?

If you're doing it from the commandline, either use
rm -r <directory to delete>
or, if they're empty
rmdir <directory to delete>
will work, too.
rm, by default, will not remove directories.
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I have had exactly this problem my self. I tis all to do with
permissions. I resolved this by entering the Trash directory as Root and
deleting everything manually.

cd .local/share/Trash/files from your home directory and you can "sudo
rm " to your hearts content.

HTH

Rgds Ken

On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 11:39 +0100, norman wrote:
> I have 3 folders which will not delete from the deleted items folder.
> Could some kind person tell me why and how to remove them, please.
>
> Norman
>
>


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> I have had exactly this problem my self. I tis all to do with
> permissions. I resolved this by entering the Trash directory as Root and
> deleting everything manually.

Thanks to you and Avi for your excellent help, directories removed.

Norman



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