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jcsandrea

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Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 3

Gnome trash bin problems [SOLVED]

Greetings, I erased a file from an USB drive and this file is now at the trash bin but when I try to delete it from there I get a permission error "access denied"... How do I delete it for good?

Last edited by jcsandrea (2008-05-07 13:47:39)

chicha

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From: France

Registered: 2007-04-20

Posts: 271

Re: Gnome trash bin problems [SOLVED]

Hello,

Are you in the storage group ?
To know this just run the

groups

command in a terminal.

Also did somebody else logged in a gnome session on your computer ? Gnome will give the permission on the peripheral to the last person logged.
So if you switched back to the first person logged and plugged in your USB drive, it will belongs to the last person logged, not you ...

EDIT : Correct a typo mistake, one should read 'storage', see posts below.

Last edited by chicha (2008-05-07 08:08:18)

Ink-Jet

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Registered: 2008-03-27

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Re: Gnome trash bin problems [SOLVED]

Just as a note, chica probably means the "storage" group, lol.

chicha

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From: France

Registered: 2007-04-20

Posts: 271

Re: Gnome trash bin problems [SOLVED]

Just as a note, chica probably means the "storage" group, lol.

You are totally right, thank you for the typo mistake, sorry

floke

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Registered: 2007-09-04

Posts: 266

Re: Gnome trash bin problems [SOLVED]

Try this:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=46969

And remember, the search box is your friend

tj

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Registered: 2008-01-11

Posts: 48

Re: Gnome trash bin problems [SOLVED]

You may also find that in this case you may still have files in ~/.local/share/Trash/info/ which are not automagically removed when you use su/sudo to delete files in ~/.local/share/Trash/files

jcsandrea

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Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 3

Re: Gnome trash bin problems [SOLVED]

@chicha: I am in the storage group...

@Floke: Thanks for the advice but I tried that and still the files reamain, the things is that they don't appear in neither "/home/juan/.local/share/Trash/files" nor "/home/juan/.local/share/Trash/info" although at the last one there is a file related to those I cannot erase, and when I erase them sudoing they magically reappear. Perhaps my trash bin is possesed by a file that in fact is a virus from windows land (I know that it doesn't matter whether it is a virus or not the things are the permissions).

jcsandrea

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Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 3

Re: Gnome trash bin problems [SOLVED]

It is solved!!! The thing was the following...

I was searching at the directory where the trash is which in my case I displayed in the reply above, but as you imagine there was nothing in those directories. Then I went back to the trash applet and got into the file I wanted to get rid of, but then in the text entry where the direction is displayed my USB drive was mentioned meaning that the file WAS STILL at the USB drive (as if there was a trash bin inside it) so I unmounted the USB drive and get the message "Do you really want to do it because the files at the trash bin will be permanently erased?" (It said something like that it is not what exactly said) and of course I clicked on "Hell yeah!". And problem solved.

Thank you guys and the holy water I spilled over my monitor just to kill that foul spirit I mean "file".