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[Paul Howarth]

Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> jim lawrence said:
> 
>>>Log in as yourself.
>>>
>>>Open a shell.
>>>
>>>$ su
>>>password: xxxxxx
>>># cd .Trash-jimf  (assuming your user name is jimf)
>>># ls -la
>>>
>>>This should list the files in your trash directory that you didn't see
>>>when you logged in as root at the login screen.  You should then be
>>>able to do:
>>>
>>># rm *
>>>
>>>to delete those files.  Though before doing that, I'd do a pwd, just
>>>to make sure you're in the right directory.
>>>
>>>As to how those files got into your trash folder in the first place
>>>when they have a userid totally different from your own user account,
>>>I can't explain that.
>>
>>
>>like  i said, i tried to build mplayer  before  and a whole lot of
>>problems. so i scrapped all of it and went a different way
>>here is the output you asked for..
>>
>>-- [root at localhost Trash]# ls -la
>>total 24
>>drwx------  2 jim jim 4096 Dec 28 09:46 .
>>drwxr-xr-x  3 jim jim 4096 Jan  6 11:31 ..
>>-rw-r--r--  1 jim jim 1524 Jan  1 12:40 .directory
>>[root at localhost Trash]# pwd
>>/home/jim/Desktop/Trash
>>[root at localhost Trash]# rm *
>>rm: cannot lstat `*': No such file or directory
>>[root at localhost Trash]#
> 
> 
> This is why I suggested cc'ing your messages to the fedora list (which I
> see you've done).  You've moved beyond my skill level with this one.  :)

$ rm -rf /home/jim/Desktop/Trash/.directory

Paul.