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testing567

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Registered: 2010-10-06

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[SOLVED] Pcmanfm: Trash lost in limbo.

I use LXDE with pcmanfm as my desktop environment.  Somehow I carelessly managed to uninstall gvfs, which is required to use the trash bin option in pcmanfm.  As a result, files I deleted were sent to a non-functional trash can.  After I noticed that I couldn't empty trash and I wasn't gaining any free space by deleting, I realized that gvfs was missing.  I reinstalled the missing package and now I don't get an error when I click on the trash.  However, it always shows nothing in my trash and stuff I deleted when it wasn't working is still taking up space on my hard drive, and no matter how many times I click "empty trash" I still have a full trash icon in pcmanfm.  Where does the "trash" get stored on the file system so I can manually delete it?  Almost 4 gigs of my hard drive is in limbo.

Last edited by testing567 (2010-12-04 07:12:09)

Meyithi

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Re: [SOLVED] Pcmanfm: Trash lost in limbo.

~/.local/share/Trash

You might need to go in as root to see what's going on.

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testing567

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Registered: 2010-10-06

Posts: 9

Re: [SOLVED] Pcmanfm: Trash lost in limbo.

~/.local/share/Trash

You might need to go in as root to see what's going on.

Wow, that was fast.  Thank you.  I just tried that and discovered 18 GB of lost hard drive space.  My trash must have been malfunctioning for much longer than I thought.  This is great.