not enough permissions to empty trash
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Mon May 16 23:08:34 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 14:46 -0700, Richard E Miles wrote:
> On Mon, 16 May 2005 12:47:41 +0100
> THUFIR HAWAT <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > when emptying the trash in gnome I run into files which are
> > undeletable by my user account but which I'd like to delete. what's
> > a good work-around, pls?
> >
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Thufir
>
> To erase files where you don't have access permissions you must have root
> access. Do this:
> cd .Trash
> sudo rm -rf *
>
And BE CAREFUL that you are where you think you are. Being the wrong
place with that command as root is extremely hazardous (As I have found
out by a typo).
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