Why not just reformat the sucker ? You will get a clean file system on your USB stick.
-- Bill Morita 512-569-6387 (Cell) On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 8:13 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> 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 > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
