On Fri, 2015-12-18 at 18:13 -0800, John Jason Jordan 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? > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
Can you rm -rf the .Trash-1000 directory? -- David Fleck <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
