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bel3atar

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Registered: 2012-07-02

Posts: 26

XFCE4 Trash items have a lock on them

Hi,
I am just wondering why do my trash items in Thunar have a lock on them.

projectdelphai

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 32

Re: XFCE4 Trash items have a lock on them

Not sure why, but to delete them:

1. Select them all (Ctrl+A)
2. Shift + Delete

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … nar-trash/

Edit: was looking for reason for lock and found interesting tidbit: if you Shift+Del in the beginning, apparently you can bypass Trash in the first place

Last edited by projectdelphai (2012-07-09 02:26:51)

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nomorewindows

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Registered: 2010-04-03

Posts: 3,370

Re: XFCE4 Trash items have a lock on them

The lock indicates permissions that don't apply to you.  Usually if the files are in your directory, but owned by someone else, POSIX.1 states that you can delete them.

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