[PLUG] Cannot delete files in .Trash

[Brian Stanaland]

What happens if you delete them from the command line?

Brian

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 9:13 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>
wrote:

> 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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