* ka1ifq [01-15-11 17:40]:

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I have been doing some playing with Vbox and now wish to delete the virtual drives I created, when I do I get " The trash has reached it's maximum size. Cleanup the trash manually "

My Trash Can is empty! I know I have seen this before but can't remember what I need to do to fix it.

rpm -f ./VirtualDrive.vdi

and your "Trash Can" won't care :^)

Tnx, I'll try that next time. Mike. --- Sent from my Suse Linux Desktop. --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 01:16, Tejas Guruswamy wrote:

On 15/01/11 23:49, ka1ifq wrote:

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* ka1ifq [01-15-11 17:40]:

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    I have been doing some playing with Vbox and now wish to delete the      virtual drives I created, when I do I get " The trash has reached it's      maximum size. Cleanup the trash manually "

    My Trash Can is empty! I know I have seen this before but can't remember      what I need to do to fix it.

rpm -f ./VirtualDrive.vdi

and your "Trash Can" won't care  :^)

      Tnx, I'll try that next time. Mike.

I'm pretty sure Patrick meant rm -f ./VirtualDrive.vdi instead of "rpm".

And for future reference of others the actual location of trashed files is ~/.local/share/Trash, if you need to manually sort out problems that's where to look.

Alternatively, instead of a simple delete from your file manager (pressing the Del key) you can press Shift+Del to delete without first moving the file to the trash (this is the GUI equivalent of the terminal rm -f command). This bypasses limits you may have set on your trash size.... but it also permanently deletes the file... the safety net of the trash function is not used. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org