Re: Hardy 8.04, can't delete items from trash

Steven Davies-Morris wrote:
I have three folders with sub-folders that appear to be "stuck" in
trash when I try to empty trash (running gnome FWIW). I'm told I
don't have permission to delete them.

Where is the trash folder really stored? I'd like to go there in a
shell as root and whack these folders once and for all.

Nevermind. I figured it out. The drive was an NTFS drive I use for
storing music loop samples/one shots. I had to go to the drive and
open the local trash. Then I had to go to superuser in a shell and do
an rm -R {filenames}* the "files" folder and an rm-R *trashinfo in the
"info" folder. There may have been an easier and cleaners way to do
it, but that did the trick.
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