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Paul Woitaschek
Asked: 2013-06-03 14:05:13 +0800 CST

Cant move files to trash

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somehow I cannot move files to trash. The strange thing is, that it works on the desktop-folder, but in other folders it doesn't. What a tried is a

sudo chown -R wegsehen /home/wegsehen/*

But nothing changed.

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2 Answers

  1. Try

    sudo chown -R wegsehen:wegsehen /home/wegsehen

    No /* on end of line maybe?

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  2. try this out, making sure you own your own trash bin.

    sudo chown wegsehen:wegsehen ~/.local/share/Trash

    You also may want to make sure you own all your files in home

    sudo chown wegsehen:wegsehen -R ~/*

    And yet still if your using a separate data partition make sure you have ownership of said partition, replacing '/Path/to/your/data/partition' with the actual path to your data partition.

    sudo chown wegsehen:wegsehen -R /Path/to/your/data/partition

    And yet even still, you want to make sure your data or even home partition is mounted properly by editing your fstab file

    sudo apt-get install gksu
gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

    Once your fstab is opened your line for the mounting of the data/home partition should look something like this...

    /dev/sda5 /media/data   ext4  auto,users,rw,noatime   0    0

    paying attention to 'auto,users,rw,noatime' the rest of your fstab info will obviously look quite different.

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