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The Trash/Wastebasket/Rubbish Bin is a place for files that have been removed from their original folder, but are still available to easily restore if the user made a mistake or changes their mind.

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How can I display trash bin of root?

I had trash bin for root: /.Trash/0/ But there is no way to display that trash bin. I try to open nautilus in root privilege. But the trash bin is still empty. In ubuntu 18.04
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Trash icon and files have disappeared from the desktop after upgrade to Ubuntu 19.04

Yesterday I upgraded my Ubuntu 18.10 to Ubuntu 19.04, and after the restart, the trash icon and my Desktop files have disappeared from the UI. If I go to the Desktop folder from my personal folder, I ...
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Can I double the Trash on Desktop?

I have a pretty weird question. Can I double my Trash Icon? I need to double it because I have a laptop, and plan on getting a second monitor, so I need a trash icon there.
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Trash Bin shows files that aren't there

Friends: I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. My trash bin has numerous files, folders, .jpgs, .mpgs, etc., many of which I don't recognize as ever having used. I tried the normal "Empty Trash" method, that ...
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Cannot find Trash folder in Ubuntu 18.04

I have already asked here but nobody was able to respond or provide any answers. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/506687/cannot-find-trash-folder-ubuntu-18-04 I am running a preinstalled ...
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How to ask for password for emptying the trash?

Is there any way I can enforce the system to ask for the password (or elevated privileges) in order to definitively clean the bin? (It's just kinda "dude are you really sure you want to permanently ...
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How to remove the .Trash-1000 folder from a Samba network volume

This is a follow up on the question Prevent Nautilus / Nemo from creating .Trash-1000 folder in mounted devices. In essence, the creation of this folder is hard-coded in these programmes and can not ...
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100 GB of Hard Drive space missing?

Taking a look at my main hard drive, /dev/sda6, you can see I've used 1797GB GB out of he 1920GB available. The difference comes out to 122749208 bytes, or 122GB of space left. GParted claims I have ...
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Prevent Nautilus / Nemo from creating .Trash-1000 folder in mounted devices

Both Nautilus and Nemo create hidden folders called .Trash-1000 in any mounted device, apparently to manage their Trash folder. This is mighty confusing in network drives that are mounted by other ...
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Deleted folder comes back

I am on ubuntu 18.04. I have a folder (self-created project for website), that is locked. Only root has access to create and delete. I did following on folder: sudo chmod 777 on folder to release ...
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Reverting to the default icon of the Trash bin

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 (GNOME). I have just changed the default icon of the Trash bin to a custom one by right-clicking the trash bin icon, choosing properties, clicking on the old icon and finding ...
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Trash icon on Desktop but not listed from terminal command "ls -all"

I am using Ubuntu 18.04 and on my Desktop there is the Trash icon. When I use terminal to list the contents of the Desktop I do not see anything related to Trash. I was expecting ".desktop" file ...
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I deleted my Trash file/folder

I need help... I had an extension that wouldn't uninstall - so I moved its file to trash. However, once the file was sent to trash; the trash couldn't be emptied... I read that If I deleted my trash ...
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Nautilus crashed - Black desktop and can't access any folder

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. The other day I put some files in the trash (I work with photography, so I normally have to delete big files everyday) and my desktop crashed. It became black and files ...
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Most efficient way for handling multiple files

I am currently working on audio processing and I have many (approx 800) samples of 40s each. I am segmenting each file into roughly 8-12s clips based on ground truth data. This ends up creating 3200 ...
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Can't move(restore) or delete folder in trash

Right now there is a folder called 'Pasta sem nome' (which translates to untitled folder) in trash. When I try to delete it or move it I get a message saying I don't have enough permissions. The ...
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There's an eclipse folder in my trash that I can't delete. Is it okay if I try to forcefully delete it?

I'm new to Ubuntu and programming and to this forum (first post!). So I'm usually very careful about everything I do, because I'm so afraid of making a mistake and breaking something beyond repair. So ...
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unable to delete .Trash on external drive (Ubuntu 16.04)

I am unable to remove my files from .Trash/ folder on my external hard drive. The file system is NTFS. Files are not in use by any process, therefore might not be locked. Empty Trash menu entry on ...
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Where is the Trash folder in Ubuntu/Windows (WSL)?

I am using Ubuntu in Win10, but I can not find the trash folder, even when I use the command mv ~/.Trash/foo ~/ mv: cannot stat '/home/man/.Trash/foo': No such file or directory My question is that ...
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ureadahead appears to be caching files from Trash Can

With one of the fastest NVMe SSD's on the market I'm not even sure ureadahead has been beneficial to me. After reading these messages though I'm wondering if it is detrimental: Oct 16 16:48:57 alien ...
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Move trash icon to bar with function icons [duplicate]

Love the new version, but can the "trash" receptacle icon be moved to the bar with the rest of the function icons? This would clean up an otherwise beautiful desktop.
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Full Disk Encryption and Trash Handling

I have installed Ubuntu 18.04.1 with Full-Disk Encryption with two passwords, one for disk login and another for Home Directory login. If I drag a file to the Trash, then I "Empty Trash," can someone ...
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Unable to find or create trash directory on ext4 drive

I have a dual booted laptop with Windows 10 and Ubuntu on it. Most of the time when I try to delete a file I get the following warning: Unable to find or create trash directory See this dialog box: ...
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Remove trash icon from GNOME desktop and add to Ubuntu dock

I just installed Ubuntu 18.04 and don't like having the trash icon on the desktop rather that in the launcher (Ubuntu dock). How can I move it back to the launcher? Can other icons be moved from the ...
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NTFS Archiving drive is only permanently deleting and cannot send items to trash

Okay so I've already done some research on this and I seem to have an intersection of a few problems. I have a drive /mnt/md0 that is a Raid1 3TB NTFS drive. My OS is 18.04.1 and is running off a ...
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How does a samba/cifs recycle bin work within PCmanFM?

By using vfs object = recycle I can create a trash bin for a samba share (or more globally, for each samba share). However, when using PCmanFM as file manager in Lubuntu 18.04 this seems not to work: ...
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Trash and mounted volumes in Ubuntu Dock on Ubuntu 18.04

When you install Ubuntu 18.04, you won't have Trash in the Dock (Launcher). Instead, it's in the Desktop, and when you mount a volume, it appears in the Desktop; And it's a little messy if you have ...
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I can't open Trash and mounted volumes with desktop icons on Gnome after installing Unity

Please, nothing happen now when I double click on these icons on Gnome desktop after installing Unity. How can I restore this ? Thanks in advance.
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How to add a trash icon to the Ubuntu dock in GNOME? [duplicate]

How do I add Trash to my GNOME shell favorites (and thus to Ubuntu dock)? Ubuntu 16.04 Unity - Trash Bin
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how to re-create the .Trash file in ubuntu server

I recently deleted the .Trash file in Ubuntu server using the command alias rm="mv -t ~/.Trash" and now I am unable to delete any file using rm command, and when I use it I get: mv: accessing `/...
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where has the file deleted with `sudo trash` gone?

$ pwd /tmp/test $ trash mfile trash: cannot trash regular file `mfile' $ sudo trash mfile $ But I can't find the file under /home/t/.local/share/Trash/* So where has the file deleted with sudo ...
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spaceFM: Why do deleted files not get sent to the trash bin?

How do I convince spaceFM to send files to the trash bin when I hit DELETE? Right now the files are immediately lost no matter if I use DEL or SHIFT+DEL.
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My right click options in ubuntu different after xkill?

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04LTS. I have used the xkill and deleted the trash icon. After that when I clicked the right mouse button options seems to be reduced. Actually, I'm new to Ubuntu. So please ...
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Trash applet doesn't show trash from a cifs mount in ubuntu 18.04 why?

Trash applet doesn't show trash from a cifs mount it creates the folder .Trash-1000, the files moved to trash are there but not showed at Trash applet, this happen only ubuntu 18.04, at ubuntu 17.10....
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Accidentally screwed up trash icon

While trying out the new Ubuntu 18.04 LTS I right-clicked on the trash desktop icon and clicked properties then changed the icon without thinking about the consequences. Now I can't figure out how to ...
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Moved files to trash when booted with Linux CD, can I recover them?

This sounds really silly... I burnt an ISO of Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS to a disk and booted up the Live CD with the first option (try Ubuntu without installing). I mounted an external hard drive and moved a ...
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is it possible to change the trashcan to use the shred function?

I know that the trashcan on Ubunutu Mate desktop performs a simple delete process, where one could theoretically recover the files after deletion. Is there an option to change that default ...
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Can't delete very large (1.2TB) files from Trash-computer freezes

I have three very large files .hdf5 (each 1.2TB) in my trash that I can't get rid of. Obviously I have tried simply emptying the trash. I have also tried deleting from Terminal with rm -rf ~/.local/...
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How to automatically empty trash periodically? [duplicate]

I discovered this post How can I set up Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to automatically empty the trash based on parameters? Does autotrash itself runs automatically? If not, how to config it?
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Deleting files from external NTFS drive in Nautilus

I have my documents and all my stuff in my secondary internal HDD, which is NTFS, set to automount on startup, on Ubuntu 16.04. Also the home's directories locations are changed to that HDD (the OS is ...
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How Unity launcher trashbin icon works?

Unity launcher panel trashbin icon can be updated (full icon to empty icon) when emptying to trash bin. The trash bin icon is refreshed althought application is running. How to programming this kind ...
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Hide trash icon in Nautilus (not on desktop)

By default, Nautilus show the icon of the trash, in the side panel. I wish to keep the function of the trash but hide the icon in Nautilus in the side panel. I'm not talk about to hide the trash icon ...
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Accidental loss of trash icon on Ubuntu 17.10

By deleting lots of files with shift+delete, I ended up without really figuring out how, with no more trash icon on Ubuntu 17.10 desktop. In Tweaks/Desktop/Icons on Desktop, "Trash" is still set to "...
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How can I delete a stubborn directory from my external HD trash?

On my external HD, I have a directory in my trash (media/me/Seagate Backup Plus Drive/.Trash-1000/files) that appears very difficult to delete. Considering my troubleshooting notes below, what else ...
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How do I remove trash icon from GNOME desktop?

How do I remove the "Trash" icon from GNOME 3 desktop? I'm running Ubuntu 17.10 with GNOME shell.
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copying/deleting files never ends in ubuntu

I just deleted some files from directory but deleting progress never ends, it happens often, once I didn't turn off pc 3 days and progress was still not finished.. what might be the problem?
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Trash is empty, but the trash bin icon looks like there is something in it

My trash is empty, but the trash bin icon has some screwed up paper in it, as if there is something there.
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How to delet "undeleteable files"

Running Lubuntu 14.04.5 LTS Bleachbit (as root) will not delete three files located in: /root/.local/share/Trash/files The files in question are: /root/.local/share/Trash/files/**menu-cached-:0** /...
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Can I remove the SanDisk security file from my trash?

Some flash drives have a special file on them that can be used for encryption purposes and is supposed to secure your data. I never use them. So I moved it off the flash drive into my Ubuntu trash, ...
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Restore files moved to trash using command line

How to restore a file from the trash using command line? Obviously you can use restore-trash command from the trash-cli package, but this wouldn't list all files inside the trash. Moreover what ...
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