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Alex Poulos
Asked: 2012-03-03 00:38:12 +0800 CST

File wont delete from trash even after sudo rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/

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I've tried using sudo rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/files/ and even going myself as root doing the same, and recreating the folder its still there, it was from a pendrive at one point and I deleted it but now I cant get it to delete permanently.

Anyone have any suggestions?

command-line rm trash 12.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Apart the user trash, there could be a trash for every mounted filesystem.
    Run the following command to see:

    mount | awk '$1 ~ /^\// {print $3}' | while read dir; do find "$dir"/.Trash* 2>&-; done
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