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
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