[PLUG] Cannot delete files in .Trash

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Sat Dec 19 02:13:23 UTC 2015


I have a 128GB USB stick that I sometimes use to transfer files. Today
I discovered that it was full, even though the GUI file manager
(Thunar, Xubuntu 14.04) showed only a few files in it. It turned out
that the .Trash-1000 file was full. Thunar's empty trash GUI doesn't
recognize drives mounted in /media, so I just navigated to
the .Trash-1000/files folder and deleted them manually. After doing so I
discovered 223 text files in .Trash-1000/info, each a small text file
with .trashinfo at the end of the filename. I am unable to delete these
files; that is, if I delete one Thunar deletes it but creates a new one
that ends in .trashinfo.trashinfo. Every time I delete one Thunar
creates a new copy, appending another .trashinfo to the filename. 

They are all just a few bytes, but I don't like the idea of the history
of what I have been transferring to be visible to anyone I might give
the drive to. And since I have already deleted the files that they point
to, they are useless. 

Suggestions?



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