On Mon, 12. February 2007 12:24:24 jan kalcic wrote:

Hi People,

My trash bin seems to have something inside but it doesn't. Suddenly I have my icon showing an always full trash bin thus I empty it. Further, when I try to empty it when it's already empty I get a error message saying that an old file I removed days ago doesn't exist.

I couldn't even find where it is located on the filesystem in order to try to fix it through command line.

Strange, isn't it? Hmm, not really ;-)) Sometimes there are hidden files (starting wit a '.' or ending with a '~') which are not deleted by using a desktop managers 'Empty Trash' command, so for GNOME, KDE and XFCE.

So you have to go to the folder which is the Trash icon (the trash symbol on your desktop / panel is only a placeholder / link to this folder. For Gnome it should be /home/$USER/.Trash (replace $USER by the according username. Open a Terminal and go to the .Trash directory, /home/$USER/.Trash in GNOME, by typing 'cd .Trash' A 'ls -al' will show you the content of the trash folder. If you se a .directory file this is ok. You may have a closer look to it with 'less .directory'. If there are other files also have a closer look to them before deleting them. (You always should know what you are deleting because there is no undelete to the rm command!) You may delete them with the 'rm' command. A 'man rm' will show the manual page of rm. regards, thomas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Mon, 12. February 2007 12:24:24 jan kalcic wrote:

Hi People,

My trash bin seems to have something inside but it doesn't. Suddenly I have my icon showing an always full trash bin thus I empty it. Further, when I try to empty it when it's already empty I get a error message saying that an old file I removed days ago doesn't exist.

I couldn't even find where it is located on the filesystem in order to try to fix it through command line.

Strange, isn't it? Hmm, not really ;-)) Sometimes there are hidden files (starting wit a '.' or ending with a '~') which are not deleted by using a desktop managers 'Empty Trash' command, so for GNOME, KDE and XFCE.

So you have to go to the folder which is the Trash icon (the trash symbol on your desktop / panel is only a placeholder / link to this folder. For Gnome it should be /home/$USER/.Trash (replace $USER by the according username. Open a Terminal and go to the .Trash directory, /home/$USER/.Trash in GNOME, by typing 'cd .Trash' A 'ls -al' will show you the content of the trash folder. If you se a .directory file this is ok. You may have a closer look to it with 'less .directory'. If there are other files also have a closer look to them before deleting them. (You always should know what you are deleting because there is no undelete to the rm command!) You may delete them with the 'rm' command. A 'man rm' will show the manual page of rm. regards, thomas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org