Hi all!
On a Centos 6.6 system, I've got a "trash" icon on the desktop that indicates there is trash.
but when I open the trash can it's empty.
how can I reset that flag, where/whatever it is?
thanks!
On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 17:58:21 -0400 Fred Smith wrote:
On a Centos 6.6 system, I've got a "trash" icon on the desktop that indicates there is trash.
but when I open the trash can it's empty.
Perhaps you have a file whose name starts with a . in the trash, i.e. a "hidden file".
how can I reset that flag, where/whatever it is?
Right-click on the trash can, select Empty Trash.
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 04:21:35PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 17:58:21 -0400 Fred Smith wrote:
On a Centos 6.6 system, I've got a "trash" icon on the desktop that indicates there is trash.
but when I open the trash can it's empty.
Perhaps you have a file whose name starts with a . in the trash, i.e. a "hidden file".
how can I reset that flag, where/whatever it is?
Right-click on the trash can, select Empty Trash.
Thanks Frank, but I've already done that (just did it again) and it doesn't help.
On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 20:03:24 -0400 Fred Smith wrote:
On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 17:58:21 -0400 Fred Smith wrote:
On a Centos 6.6 system, I've got a "trash" icon on the desktop that indicates there is trash.
but when I open the trash can it's empty.
Perhaps you have a file whose name starts with a . in the trash, i.e. a "hidden file".
how can I reset that flag, where/whatever it is?
Right-click on the trash can, select Empty Trash.
Thanks Frank, but I've already done that (just did it again) and it doesn't help.
Your Trash directory is under ~/.local/share/Trash
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 06:14:01PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 20:03:24 -0400 Fred Smith wrote:
On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 17:58:21 -0400 Fred Smith wrote:
On a Centos 6.6 system, I've got a "trash" icon on the desktop that indicates there is trash.
but when I open the trash can it's empty.
Perhaps you have a file whose name starts with a . in the trash, i.e. a "hidden file".
how can I reset that flag, where/whatever it is?
Right-click on the trash can, select Empty Trash.
Thanks Frank, but I've already done that (just did it again) and it doesn't help.
Your Trash directory is under ~/.local/share/Trash
Ah ha. I think I found the culprit.
I had mounted several partitions from a disk image a while back and apparently never unmounted them nor removed the partiton mappings. Got rid of those and now there's no "phantom" trash.
Fred
On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 20:46:48 -0400 Fred Smith wrote:
I had mounted several partitions from a disk image a while back and apparently never unmounted them nor removed the partiton mappings. Got rid of those and now there's no "phantom" trash.
Now that you mention it, I've previously found that if you move items on a USB drive into the trash and then un-mount that USB drive before emptying the trash, the trash-full icon stays there until you either log out and log back in or re-mount that USB drive and empty the trash while it's mounted.
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